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Re: A Letter from Africa Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week |
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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Mar 11 01:39:10 2014, in response to Re: A Letter from Africa Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Mar 11 01:13:52 2014. I will agree with one line from DAnD's post: Human beings are NOT basically good. I agree with that premise unreservedly.I spent too many years with too many people in the back of my ambulance, who had been done to death in ways that defy rational understanding. If I were to describe, in accurate detail, the unspeakable things people are capable of carrying out against each other, they would haunt your waking and sleeping, to know that each and every one of your neighbors is perfectly able to do such horrors to YOU. Evil knows no racial or ethnic boundaries, it is everywhere. What human beings are, at their core, are predators. Think about it. Benevolent, "good" human beings do not rationally dream up devices like nuclear weapons. (Edward Teller remained unapologetic for having developed the hydrogen bomb, right up to the day he died, arguing that if he had not created the H-bomb, "others would have, and others in the Soviet Union did". He ignored his own moral responsibility not to have partaken in the development of such a weapon, knowing what its usage and meaning was.) Only severely twisted individuals come up with implements that they know full well, can render humanity a minor species, or even an extinct one. That's just my $0.02. |
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