Is this argument effective/convincing:?

Question

(1) You do what you do — in the circumstances in which you find yourself — because of the way you are. (2 ) So if you’re going to be ultimately responsible for what you do, you’re going to have to be ultimately responsible for the way you are—at least in certain mental respects. (3) But you can’t be ultimately responsible for the way you are (for the reasons just given). (4) So you can’t be ultimately responsible for what you do.

Answer 1

All your argument establishes is that the concept of "responsibility" is not well-defined.

Answer 2

Circular logic.....You are responsible for the way you are.....You are responsible for the things you do and how you act . To blame someone else is morally wrong.

If I learn to bake bread from my mother, and become a famous baker, would it be her teaching me the things i know to become a baker? or would it be my successfulness as a marketer, combined with my skill as a baker, and providing the public with what they want? My success in part was owed my mother, but was also earned by myself.

Likewise a child who was taught from little on to lie.Lying is one thing, but to do so convincingly takes a very special sort of person- one who can so totally believe their own lies so as to fake their body language. Do we hold the child totally responsible for lying? Or do we blame the parents?

For children, societal behavior should be modified. They are young and impressionable. The older one gets, the more responsible one should be for their own actions.

Any skill that is learned can be unlearned.

SO you are ultimately responsible for your actions

Answer 3

As the others pointed out, claim 3 is the problem.

We ought to recognize that we don't have the ability to accurately judge ourselves. Our human capacity for self justification and rationalization is tremendous. We must put ourselves under the oversight of others. Make ourselves accountable to others.

So the only way to take responsibility is to make oneself accountable to others.

Answer 4

it is both illogical and thinking in circular logic. It does not prove/disprove anything. It infact makes a case against the whole point. It is an incorrect statement.

Blessed Be.

Answer 5

You give no supporting argument for 3, which is the most controversial claim.