- Joined
- Oct 18, 2011
- Messages
- 6,769
- Reaction score
- 1,936
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Centrist
Some 'men are better than others.
'Men can be injured from a number of sources, including, most relevantly, the environment.
Injured 'men are neither good or evil, they're just in pain, and pain affects different people in different ways, so some tolerate the pain without inflicting it on others, while others, not so much.
The uninjured 'man is a fantasy, as is the perfect environment.
Thus we really have no reality-based calibration to determine what our nature is, no normative control group with which to make a comparison.
My guess is, however, that if you put 'man in hell, he'll behave devilishly, and if you put 'man in heaven, he'll behave angelically.
Because if there's one thing that's true about humanity, at least those humans still alive today, is that we are as adapative to our surroundings as Darwinianly possible.
'Men can be injured from a number of sources, including, most relevantly, the environment.
Injured 'men are neither good or evil, they're just in pain, and pain affects different people in different ways, so some tolerate the pain without inflicting it on others, while others, not so much.
The uninjured 'man is a fantasy, as is the perfect environment.
Thus we really have no reality-based calibration to determine what our nature is, no normative control group with which to make a comparison.
My guess is, however, that if you put 'man in hell, he'll behave devilishly, and if you put 'man in heaven, he'll behave angelically.
Because if there's one thing that's true about humanity, at least those humans still alive today, is that we are as adapative to our surroundings as Darwinianly possible.