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Originally Posted by zen_tom
daswig, that's not the point, your place of birth is an accident of nature, it doesn't make you a good or a bad person.
put enough people into as tough a situation as Iraq, and people will crack - one way, or another
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Huh? It doesn't make you a good or bad person? So you're going on the premise that conduct is a result of genetics, nature over nurture?
If you are born into and grow up in a society that acts as if the standard thing is to run around lopping off heads, you're going to end up being the kind of person that runs around lopping off heads. Transplant that person to a civilized society after growing up lopping off heads, and don't be surprised if he continues lopping off heads, despite the fact that it's no longer socially acceptable. Does it make him evil? In the eyes of the civilized society, FUCK YES. Why? Because he's lopping off heads, an act that the civilized society finds abhorrent. And the fact that he grew up in the other society isn't really mitigating circumstances...