adrian_turtle

You're right, of course. Every action is a choice. But I lived in the Hudson Valley in the 1990s, when RFK Jr acted like an environmentalist hero who used his power for good and nobody had heard of Andrew Wakefield. He changed. I think the deep flaw in his character was a matter of weakness, not malice. It troubles me because I know that I, myself, am not so very strong. I fell in among a social group that values social justice more than power. I'm a better person than I used to be. I've worked for that. But I could so very easily have gone the other way.

I also (at the same time, coincidentally) lived with an alcoholic who thought he could just choose to stop drinking. And he couldn't. Perhaps because all the people in his research group drank, or perhaps because it's just really hard for some people to stop and he wasn't that strong.