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MushroomTrip
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Re: Questioning one's assumptions about human nature [Re: NiamhNyx]
#7918217 - 01/23/08 12:20 AM (16 years, 10 days ago) |
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I can't talk for everybody as I've only been in my situation, but from what I know by now I don't think that it's possible for a human NOT to experience self-loathing at all.
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NiamhNyx
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Re: Questioning one's assumptions about human nature [Re: MushroomTrip]
#7918235 - 01/23/08 12:23 AM (16 years, 10 days ago) |
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Well, if nothing I've said has convinced you that it's at least concievably possible, I don't know what will. Do you agree that it's concievably possible for a human being to not have feelings of greed? (Given that they exist in a radically different culture than the one you and I are a part of.)
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MushroomTrip
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Re: Questioning one's assumptions about human nature [Re: NiamhNyx]
#7918294 - 01/23/08 12:38 AM (16 years, 10 days ago) |
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Do you agree that it's concievably possible for a human being to not have feelings of greed? (Given that they exist in a radically different culture than the one you and I are a part of.)
Well, that's exactly what I am having doubts about. I'll try to express this as clear as possible... I am certain that the feeling of greed can be avoided when understood. When analyzed and observed their roots, when we shed light into all it's ramifications. Solving through reason. I think that greed is an instinct that becomes active in situations of necessity. Now, could some people lack this instinct? I don't know but I am more inclined towards thinking that we all have it. Perhaps there is a method of education that is able to make one automatically reason with this feeling right from the start, so fast that it can go unobserved?
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Re: Questioning one's assumptions about human nature [Re: NiamhNyx]
#7918302 - 01/23/08 12:41 AM (16 years, 10 days ago) |
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NiamhNyx said: Do you agree that it's concievably possible for a human being to not have feelings of greed? (Given that they exist in a radically different culture than the one you and I are a part of.)
It is conceivable... but this question will never be answer by philosophy.
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Re: Questioning one's assumptions about human nature [Re: MushroomTrip]
#7918309 - 01/23/08 12:42 AM (16 years, 10 days ago) |
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MushroomTrip said: Perhaps there is a method of education that is able to make one automatically reason with this feeling right from the start, so fast that it can go unobserved?
I believe this is quite feasible. Whether or not it can happen in this world, to our society, remains to be seen, but feasible it most definitely is.
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Re: Questioning one's assumptions about human nature [Re: MushmanTheManic]
#7918325 - 01/23/08 12:47 AM (16 years, 10 days ago) |
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MushmanTheManic said:
It is conceivable... but this question will never be answer by philosophy.
Maybe not, but perhaps anthropology or even psychology might have some useful contribution?
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