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>Take any group of cub scouts to the park, they see a duck, they reach for a rock.

any non-mentally ill adult present would use the situation to explain that it isn't acceptable.

> Its built-in. We are hunters.

yea. Hannibal Lecter.




Explaining what society condones has nothing to do with what built-in impulses Homo Sapiens possesses. What's your point?


Homo Sapiens doesn't possess those built-in impulses. Some sick members of society imprint that it on some others (usually early in their life), and with society putting some effort into it, that bad habit will be exterminated.


Evidence seems to contradict that Pollyanna view.


judging by your other comments, talking about evidence you probably mean your personal experience. Well, by the same token one would expect that people dealing with rapists would with the same validity talk about such Homo Sapiens built-in impulse too.


Really? My experience with the general population of youth in our area is similar in any way? This thread is off the rails.




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