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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (4628)	2/3/2001 8:39:47 PM
From: jbe	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Steven, are you trying to illustrate my points? :-) On the Nature/Nurture question: I think what Nature provides is mainly the herding instinct. We are pack animals; each pack competes* with other packs for available resources.* What about Kropotkin's argument that cooperation plays at least a big a role as competition? Again: Do you think that the Serbs who rape and murder Kosovars, or vice versa, would rape and murder those of their own pack? What about the Serbs and Kosovars who try to prevent the members of their pack from murdering the members of the other pack (and there are such)? And may I argue that we can find as many instances of inter-pack collaboration as of inter-pack rivalry? (And you should know that I am no Polyanna.) That brings me back to the question I asked at the end of my last post: Why is it easier for people [in this case, you] to believe in the innateness of "bad" qualities (e.g., cruelty, clannishness) than in the innateness of "good" ones (e.g., kindness, empathy)? Joan