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Originally posted by BigG
Is this true if your mother was raped when you were conceived? What if the rapist was Charles Manson?
Is this true if your development or the delivery kills your mother?
Is this true if you are one of multiple developing fetuses and your physical development in the womb actually causes the termination of one (or more) of the other fetuses?
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In order to be guilty of a 'sin' or 'wrong doing', you must first have the capacity of volition. In other words, you are only guilty of doing something wrong if you consciously know it is wrong. This is why the law makes allowances for so-called legal insanity.
Note that this is not the same as the theological concept of 'original sin', which holds that all men are born guilty (i.e., with the capacity for evil) through the sin of Eve, regardless of their volition to commit such a sin. As a result, all men are in need of salvation.