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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
Huh? Where'd you get the idea I'm a communist or a socialist?
The only difference between me and you is that I don't make stupid assumptions about human nature.
Why? Simple reason... I'm human and I don't have these so called urges that you think are natural.
It's not a weak argument... and I won't take it back because you haven't sufficiently countered it.
My argument is based purely on the fact that I believe the ability to reason and think rational thoughts are the only things which can truly be described as "human nature".
To sum up what I'm saying... I believe that BECAUSE OF the ability to reason, the perpetuation of the idea that a particular behaviour is innately human is usually used by people who want to justify immoral behaviour.
For that reason... APART from the ability to reason and rationalize our surrounding and manage our biological urges to a degree... no affirmative behaviour is innately human.
I am not arguing that conflict runs against human nature... I mean I agree with what you said before... war can be rationalised... but that does not make it human nature.
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Our problem right now is that we fail to correctly define what we mean by "human nature".
Human nature... it's pretty much a lousy concept.
So..........
Ninja or Samurai ?