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Reply #16: I think the point is that even though socieities heal, it [View All]

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PreacherCasey (687 posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Dec-18-06 08:38 PM
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16. I think the point is that even though socieities heal, it
doesn't look like they learn from past mistakes (theirs or others). The cycle of violence continues. In the whole of human history, has there been one example of a free, peaceful society?
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  The Human capacity to Destroy has far surpassed Ripley  Dec-18-06 08:07 PM   #0 
   "Space Seed" had the same message, some40 years ago...  HypnoToad   Dec-18-06 08:10 PM   #1 
   Good Scifi is Beautiful.  Ripley   Dec-18-06 08:17 PM   #4 
   even older than that.  antifaschits   Dec-18-06 08:22 PM   #6 
   Shorter Ripley: There are more religion-y folks than scientists.  BlooInBloo   Dec-18-06 08:14 PM   # 
   Too simplistic.  PreacherCasey   Dec-18-06 08:27 PM   #9 
   yes. Where did the ridiculous meme that "man is basically good"  villager   Dec-18-06 08:14 PM   #2 
   A man, in the singular, is basically good, usually.  Spider Jerusalem   Dec-18-06 08:26 PM   #8 
      well, that's an interesting point. So "mankind" is not basically good,  villager   Dec-18-06 08:29 PM   #11 
      Greed, Gossip and Bullying  Ripley   Dec-18-06 08:35 PM   #15 
      Close  Az   Dec-18-06 08:30 PM   #12 
         people seem basically... fearful, above all else  villager   Dec-18-06 08:35 PM   #14 
            Go to a mall  Az   Dec-18-06 08:39 PM   #17 
               but then again, we're a species that ignores eco-collapse because solving it  villager   Dec-18-06 08:56 PM   #21 
                  It seems to me that people are neither essentially good nor bad.  PreacherCasey   Dec-18-06 09:05 PM   #22 
                     Yes to all of that on an individual scale..  Ripley   Dec-19-06 09:02 AM   #23 
                        Agreed. You are describing the symptoms of the disease...  PreacherCasey   Dec-19-06 03:35 PM   #24 
   Is this reality? Or Battlestar Galactaca?  bryant69   Dec-18-06 08:16 PM   #3 
   Oh no  Lasthorseman   Dec-18-06 08:20 PM   #5 
   I disagree  Az   Dec-18-06 08:22 PM   #7 
      I did not say to lose sight of the positive.  Ripley   Dec-18-06 08:28 PM   #10 
         You say that like America  Az   Dec-18-06 08:34 PM   #13 
            I think the point is that even though socieities heal, it  PreacherCasey   Dec-18-06 08:38 PM   #16 
               Societies move slowly  Az   Dec-18-06 08:43 PM   #18 
               I can appreciate what you are saying.  PreacherCasey   Dec-18-06 08:51 PM   #20 
               Thanks, Preacher  Ripley   Dec-18-06 08:47 PM   #19 
 

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