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Originally Posted by willravel
Ah, "human nature". There's really no such thing. There are certain behavioral patterns that are motivated by biology and environment, but no "nature" to speak of.
Some places on the planet have extremely low crime rates. http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cr...mes-per-capita
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Originally Posted by willravel
...I'm using the descriptive terminology.
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Sorry Will, but just because it is an outdated term doesn't mean Ustwo is wrong. Human nature is a fairly good blanket description that encompasses that we are affected by our genes and our environment. The human race is like a jungle as it is- we might as well call it nature.
Ngdawg said it best, we are still primates. No amount of wishful thinking is going to help. Maybe if we start it off young then there might be a change. This would only be psychological conditioning towards negative thoughts, and nothing towards a likely genetic factor.
On a sadder note: I doubt the foundations for the utopia that the future will hold wont even be laid within my life time.