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You know what, I'm giggling so much right now. Have just read the at-home winemaking thread.Walker wrote:Are you distracted from the situation?marjoram_blues wrote:Justice ?Walker wrote:You get what you pay for, and you know the rest of that tune.
Actually, what it means is that meditation is a non-intellectual method for enhancing knowledge of thought plasticity.
It can be used to justify one's actions to one's self, but if actions harm others or cause them inconvenience, they might cause you to face the consequences. Society will hold a psychopath responsible for his actions even if it is hard wired in him. I suppose that is what natural selection is now. As a society we will now decide what kind of genetic hardwiring is acceptable and what is not and weed the undesirable hardwiring out.Skip wrote:I can't be held responsible for.....
.... because it's in my nature.
As a society, we don't decide anything or initiate any specific action. Social selection has been going on for 10,000 years or so - but each society was selecting for the traits it found useful at any given time. In turbulent eras, they wanted warriors: extolled the virtues of courage and skill at arms; rewarded the biggest, most aggressive boys - and encouraged them to breed early, for they would likely die young. In placid time, intelligence and ingenuity were valued; the clever ones rewarded - they tend to mature late, breed sparsely but last a long time. There was no singe-direction trend throughout civilization, so no traits were weeded out. We still have the full complement of caveman DNA. If civilization breaks down next week, humans will revert to savagery by the week after. (See countries that have been "bombed back to the stone age").sthitapragya wrote: I suppose that is what natural selection is now. As a society we will now decide what kind of genetic hardwiring is acceptable and what is not and weed the undesirable hardwiring out.
I completely agree with you. I was actually replying to your initial post which was pretty short and open to any kind of interpretation. We might not be responsible for our actions but we might have to face the consequences of our actions.Skip wrote:As a society, we don't decide anything or initiate any specific action. Social selection has been going on for 10,000 years or so - but each society was selecting for the traits it found useful at any given time. In turbulent eras, they wanted warriors: extolled the virtues of courage and skill at arms; rewarded the biggest, most aggressive boys - and encouraged them to breed early, for they would likely die young. In placid time, intelligence and ingenuity were valued; the clever ones rewarded - they tend to mature late, breed sparsely but last a long time. There was no singe-direction trend throughout civilization, so no traits were weeded out. We still have the full complement of caveman DNA. If civilization breaks down next week, humans will revert to savagery by the week after. (See countries that have been "bombed back to the stone age").sthitapragya wrote: I suppose that is what natural selection is now. As a society we will now decide what kind of genetic hardwiring is acceptable and what is not and weed the undesirable hardwiring out.
No, if you can't control youself then you might have overwhelming OCD and in some cases you should therefore be locked up because you pose a potential risk to society. Many uses "it's my nature" because they'r immensly selfish and won't bother to change themselves a bit, therefore they will blame everybody else but them selves.Skip wrote:I can't be held responsible for.....
.... because it's in my nature.