Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
then, I guess my questions remains albeit it's boiled down...
Will it be possible to affect change of the human condition then?
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I'm not so sure. In the thousands of years that we have been living in "civilized" manners, these things still persist.
Let's look at the things that pass on the things that teach us about the human condition, stories, allegory, fables, parables. Modern day stories, Shakespeare, Biblical parable, fables, Greek drama all date back to pre BC times. Yet the tales told are all the same about the human condition involving the "seven deadly sins", Pride, Avarice, Wrath, Envy, Lust, Gluttony, Sloth.
People have been killing and exploiting each other as long as the historical record has been kept. Code of Hammurabi dates back to 2050B.C. and has some instruction on punishment "154. If a man be guilty of incest with his daughter, he shall be driven from the place (exiled)." Interestingly enough there is alot in the code about slaves and how to identify and pay for them. So we've come "some way" but still again, it has not been eradicated.
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