Diathesis Stress Model

His reasoning although it may sound valid to some, unfortunately does not provide enough claims as to why we should not have moral responsibility. It can be taken as more of an excuse that we should not be responsible for our actions and makes it seem that in order for someone to be responsible for their the action they commit, they must also be responsible for the prior choices that lead to one being a particular way. Wolf claims that justifies this by saying that “It is a deep and essential feature of life in modern Western society that normal human beings who have reached some level of maturity regard themselves and one another as responsible beings. That is, if people did not regard themselves and one another as responsible beings, life
For, example, if you are born with the vulnerability to be a diabetic and do not take care of yourself then you will develop diabetes, if you do take care of yourself, you will go your whole life without developing it. In this case, we can switch out “disorder ” to a bad or negative behavior. Someone can be born with the vulnerability to take a certain action or behave a certain way. If you are born in a family that takes drugs or are addicted to alcohol, you more than likely will become addicted to both alcohol and drugs unless you are taken from the family and placed in a better home, or your parents decide to change their life around. Given the first case, if you stay in a family that take drugs or are alcoholic, you are more then likely able to suffer negative effects of this. You were predisposition to either take drugs or drink alcohol because of your environment, something you did not chose and could not control. Should we take this into consideration when choosing to when blame? Probably, but the diathesis stress model also takes into account that there are resilient individuals that, although they may grow up with a predisposition and an environment that would have negative effects on them, they still won’t develop that disease (in this case behavior or action). How should we classify those individuals? This model, is able to help us prove that we do have free will and therefor have a choice in the actions that we take, no matter the circumstance that that we are given. The reason we are not able to see this is because these cases are not usually presented when a bad action has occurred. One does not consider to blame someone that was resilient of the environment in which they grew up in but rather because of the environment in which they grew up in and