I've never understood the trouble people have had with accepting determinism. Sure you're just a result of conditioning, so what? You can still live your life the exact same way, free will and all, regardless of the technicalities behind the scenes.I think the trouble is that determinism is usually put at odds to free will. As in we're robots just following our predetermined programming, and not making any real choices for ourselves.
But I think it's really a complicated mess of both.