Without conditioning no one could speak, write or learn anything

From the time we are born we are trained like we train dogs. We are domesticated not to kill each other. We are domesticated to eat certain things and to believe certain things along the way. So, we are all conditioned in many different ways. Is this good or bad?

To be realistic it is always both good and bad and even how it is good and bad is different for each person depending upon their personal psychology and disposition and inclinations. So, whether the conditioning takes or not and even what kind of conditioning it is depends upon what culture you are raised in and whether those raising you believed in God, Buddha, nothing or were humanists or who they hated or didn't hate etc.

So, behavior for the most part is all conditioned behavior.

This likely would be upsetting for most people to realize in some ways.

For me, I'm just grateful I had really good parents who were good people and taught me to love God and America and democracy and to be kind to women and children and not kill people except during wars. And luckily I wasn't drafted so I didn't have to go to Viet Nam either because more people my age died there than any other. 50,000 Americans died there. and 40,000 died in the Korean War too.

So, I'm very grateful I didn't have to kill anyone in this lifetime because that is major PTSD right there. It doesn't really matter if the person you killed was good or bad they still had parents, brothers and sisters and friends and you have to live with that the rest of your life.

Here's my recommendation in life: "Don't do anything you cannot live with the rest of your life: or you won't."