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Originally posted by orbital
Man is good by nature and evil by neccessity.
This may not be the absolute truth, but I think it's a fair working model.
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That sounds a bit like...
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains"
which, as someone witty once said, sounds like...
"Sheep are born carnivores, and everywhere eat grass"
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My 2 cents:
Take man away from the institutions that we have created to keep us civilised and we turn into cruel animals. (See Stanford Prison Experiment, or Stanley Milgram's Yale experiment).
To put Oscar Wilde in an unintended context:
"We are all born in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars".