At bottom, the following represents a main implication of radical behaviorism. Skinner once remarked that the argument he put forth in Beyond Freedom and Dignity was so convincing that he no longer felt any measure of responsibility, of ownership, of the work. Adoption of the position requires that one cedes pride in their work, as whatever one does is necessarily a product of an individual's personal and ancestral environmental histories, neither of which is under the control of the individual in question."I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is."
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