GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

rj rjackson at mail.usyd.edu.au
Sat Dec 11 21:28:48 CST 1999


Cjhurtt
> just because everything that humans do comes down to human nature does not 
> mean that i or anyone else has to excuse anyone's behavior.

Quite right.

> another element 
> of human nature is the desire to weed out the less savory aspects of our 
> natures.

But who decides what is more or "less savory"? And who will be the
weeders and who the weedees?

> this is where cultural conditioning comes in.
> some one does something bad...it's human nature.
> some one wants that person to stop...also human nature.
> society builds a jail.
> all human nature.

I guess so. Sadly.

best



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