Re:He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price
by em-bee on Thursday December 07, 2023 @05:30PM
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i very strongly agree. human nature is often used as an excuse for bad behavior. even stuff as seemingly benign as "boys will be boys". pretty much every behavior can be changed with proper training and good role models.
every human has the potential to be a great person. and only education is needed to enable that greatness and allow humanity to benefit from it.
> To pick the most extreme example: most people don't need a law, or even a moral code, to not kill other people.
How it may be a "nature" if it is artificial? Some cultures routinely eat other people, we do not, how it can be a human nature, if different people coalesce at different "natures"?
There is a famous debate "nature vs. nurture", and I believe it is unwise to call something to be a nature thing, if it is really a nurture thing. It just bring a lot of confusion.
> Everyone's human nature is, on average, reasonably aligned, and laws tend to reflect that average.
Eww... averages... I believe it is impossible to have a meaningful definition of an "average person". There was a story of average pilot[1], and later of a search for average american woman (can't find a link). You cannot have meaningful averages in highly multi-dimensional spaces.
But if we rephrase it referring to a social norms, it could make sense, but then comes a question what is the difference between human nature and social norms?
[1] https://worldwarwings.com/no-such-thing-as-an-average-pilot-...