Full Idea
The problem of responsibility would have a meaning only if we had been consulted before our birth and had consented to be precisely who we are.
Gist of Idea
We could only be responsible if we had consented before birth to who we are
Source
E.M. Cioran (The Trouble with Being Born [1973], 06)
Book Reference
Cioran,E.M.: 'The Trouble with Being Born', ed/tr. Richard Howard [Penguin 2012], p.82
A Reaction
The question could still be asked retrospectively, like agreeing to be in an army into which you have been conscripted. People gripped by deeply anti-social desires would probably welcome the chance to become different.