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Poll: Are there Natural States of Humans? This poll is closed. |
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Yes there are. | 3 | 75.00% | |
No there aren't. | 1 | 25.00% | |
Maybe there Are/Maybe there Aren't. | 0 | 0% | |
I don't know either way. | 0 | 0% | |
Total | 4 vote(s) | 100% |
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Do Humans have a Natural State?
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(March 28, 2016 at 7:11 pm)Shining_Finger Wrote: This topic comes up fairly often in Philosophy, but I have never heard it being questioned. There is no super natural state. Our politics and religions are passed down to us mostly at birth. Our artificial constructs we call religion, economic views and political parties are really nothing more than excuses to set up social order. It is perfectly natural to set up groups because we evolved to be social. That is a completely different story as to what ideas a particular group values as to it's ability to be empathetic to minorities or other groups. Your last sentence is the evolutionary reality. We are limited in that we don't have super powers, but our species behavior DOES include the ability to be cruel or compassionate, to use force or cooperation. Evolution unfortunately isn't about what is moral, but simply what gets us to the point of reproducing. But the good thing is that we did evolve with empathy because we are social, so the morality while subjective to the group, does have the capability of evolving to more civility if humanity chooses, but it is up to us to foster that. The op is nonsense to me knowing our species was around before any set boarder or set religion or economic view. (March 31, 2016 at 11:02 am)KUSA Wrote: I think a natural state would be naked.
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
Not sure!
Dead. We tend to all converge to that state and spend most of our time there. Feel free to send me a private message.
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