Assuming free will exists, why will you be proud/ashamed of something like your dna which is not in your control?

Frame your argument a little differently - you're saying you can't be proud / ashamed of anything your parents have done (that you didn't contribute to).

Of course. How is it so hard to understand?

Will you send a child to prison for crimes committed by their parents if the parents ended up dead by the time found guilty?

Pride or shame is by definition a feeling not legal culpability. A feeling.

Human brains seem wired to have strong feelings about their kin or tribe. So, yes, I would think having neutral feelings about your parents would be a hard thing to understand for most people.

I think the point is not the body is capable of creating irrational thoughts and emotions. That's well established.

The point is logically it makes no sense to be proud of something which you had no role to play.

From a purely logical point of view - there's not much point to anything humans do.

Can you break down what the logic of pride should be? Any who determines what that should is. You seem to imply that there's an objective standard for that.

Because it is in my DNA to be proud of it.

Nice. Put that in resume and LinkedIn as well.

You're technically correct and I agree with you, but you're missing the broader point: the goal of GP comment was to make the author of GGP comment feel better about having a high percentage of neanderthal DNA.

I understand the motive behind your goal and appreciate the effort but disagree with the logic.