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Well, let's start at this point. Do you believe that a person is affected by their environment? If so, we're talking a matter of degree. I personally believe that environment has an immense affect on a person, moreso than any of us really care to admit. Imagine the type of person you would have developed into had your environment been different. Every point of view could change if a simple detail in your early childhood had been changed. The way we develop in our environment could easily change the way we handle something in our lives that makes us unhappy. I do far less to separate person from environment. They are both deeply within each other.
Your point of view sounds like you have much more rigid definitions of person and environment. I assume you take on the perspective that a person's insides are only changed by them, that our environment can only change us if we let it. I agree with that, but I don't believe that there are very many if any people in existence that have the sort of inner strength that allows them to truly function independent of their environment, even in their own heads. Maybe I'm just far weaker than most, but I can think of several times in my life where, had things that were beyond my control gone differently, I would be a different person today, meaning many of my qualities would be different.
From this, I have determined that, at the least for me, and at the most for everybody, environment controls, to some degree, who we are outside and inside. So, to truly control who we are inside, we would have to control that which is outside of us as well. From there, continuing the logic from my previous post works perfectly.
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