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Re: Lord of the Flies: Are our violent tendancies human nature?
by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com)
on Oct 17, 2001 - 12:26 AM
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Ever seen gatica? Then you'll know how bad it scares me that babies will be created without traditional conception. Imperfect "accidents" will be destroyed at birth.
Right now we are not "fixing" defective genes, we are just overriding them, and not preventing them from being passed down and down and down again. We're breeding weakness into our own genes. In the great wild kingdom, animals that are slow don't last long. Fast animals with messed up brains are singled out and disowned. I watched a special on the rise and fall of lion prides, and one lion with a kinked tail (a sign of inbreeding) was a habitual cub killer, and she was exiled from the pride. Because she was a nut. What do we do with killers here? We coddle them, slap them on the wrist, and say "nono,that's BAD. Now stop it"
But like I said, we are animals, but have lost our instincts long long long in the road past.
People say we have mothering instincts, but if that were true, it would be true in EVERYONE. We wouldn't have teenagers dumping babies in garbage cans, wouldn't have abusive parents, etc.
We have tendencies, gut reactions, but instincts are defined as an elaborate set of actions that occurs within a species that is inherant without being taught, such as bird migration, a spider spinnning a web, hibernation, times to mate etc.
It's touchy for some people, whether it's religious or personal or different teaching, but the science is behind it unquestionably.
The beauty of humanity is it's diversity and it's IMPERFECTION....if we were perfect, we'd stagnate and halt our personal and physical growth.
Science fiction isn't so bad...or so unreal.
From the earth to the moon, and other space travel books are actually happening ...
you never can tell...it's the dreams of the dreamers that make scientific reality!
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