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Originally Posted by starseed
I think he is saying that progress does not mean inventing the microwave.
I think the jury is still out on whether we are inherently evil (a lot of western philosophy) or inherently good (a lot of far eastern philosophy). I tend to side with humanism...
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However the moral depravity that we've seen on both the micro scale and macro scale gives us strong empirical evidence to the violent and destructive patterns inherent in our nature.