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27160, RE: human nature
Posted by mc_delta_t, Tue Mar-29-05 12:50 PM
>some people are just naturally power-hungry, some people are
>just naturally greedy, and a whole lotta people (myself
>included) are just naturally lazy, and would not work to the
>fullest productive capacity (or some reasonable facsimile
>thereof) without a sliding scale of renumeration and/or the
>possibility of being fired if you don't work hard enough.
>"From each according to ability, to each according to need" is
>a beautiful ideal, but uh, what's in it for me?

First off, let me say, I don't for a second thingk that human nature is to be greedy. It is to survive, but under a capitalist society, people see other people with so much more than them, and lust after it. Matter of fact, we're taught that that is good and right. Hey, lets all listen to Ann Raynd, greed is a virtue!

Second.......off, humans can overcome human nature. If human nature is indeed greed, and we are so bound to it, what of the people who are so selfless, the mother Theresas, the MLKs, the people who gave so much asking little in return. Well, they are exceptions, sure, but did theynot overcome their "nature". And what of soldiers, if human nature is to survive, going into battle is defying the basest of instincts! Sometimes for very little reason.