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Originally Posted by peter12
Well, Aristotle would disagree with you. Man is by nature a political animal, all polities stem from some root in human nature. Now what that nature is is an entirely different question, but that doesn't mean that it isn't there.
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I agree with you man is by nature a political animal, and at the end of the day man is a simple animal. There's no creature on this planet who will resort to violence so easily as man can.
Someone once said that politics is civilized warfare defined. For the most part the average man while not good at the civilized part understands that violence in its many forms is the quickest and easiest path to not only gaining power but keeping power.
Given the right amount of leverage, your average peace loving tree hugging hippy will quickly resort to violence, warfare and dominance.
Its not religion thats evil, its mans inate nature to dominate conquor and gather wealth and keep it.
Whether its some god built kill switch that he's given each of us, or we've never been able to breed out of us.
Call it our own version of population control. Show me someone who doesn't bow down to his darker nature, and I'll show you a defect.