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Originally Posted by Mephistopheles  You can't invent murder. It's something most lifeforms do.
To Teena, murder is not genetically abhorrent. Just ask feral humans who commit murder. Oh wait, you can't, they're mentally retarded if they even live long enough to be captured.
We only find murder wrong because it's what we're taught. If you grew up in Nazi Germany murder isn't bad at all. If Nazism had won the war, our world wouldn't find a problem with genocide and random murder. And then there's the literary world of 1984; murder is encouraged. |
Hmm, perhaps I shouldn't have put it so plainly as "we're genetically set against murder". I do believe that it's very possible that there's something along those lines in our nature (read link in last post), but there can also be different factors. For example the survival instinct could very well override the instinct to not harm.
As far as the Nazis, I see what you're saying...but you cant really say if we're by nature open to any behavior (murder for example) and we are lead by what we're taught to feel that it is wrong OR we're by nature "against" murder but can be "brainwashed" to accept it or encourage it.