01-27-2009, 06:32 PM
What is "human nature?"
An explanatory principle.
What does it explain?
Whatever one wants it to.
In this case it explains why some prefer blaming and scapegoating to actually doing something different to see if we get different consequences.
What if the rest of us (or even just enough of us) decide you are one of the "evil people" who needs to be removed from society?
That's no more arbitrary than you deciding who "they" are, and no more arbitrary than you saying "they" exist at all.
I'm curious where your fear of organized community activity comes from...
An explanatory principle.
What does it explain?
Whatever one wants it to.
In this case it explains why some prefer blaming and scapegoating to actually doing something different to see if we get different consequences.
What if the rest of us (or even just enough of us) decide you are one of the "evil people" who needs to be removed from society?
That's no more arbitrary than you deciding who "they" are, and no more arbitrary than you saying "they" exist at all.
I'm curious where your fear of organized community activity comes from...