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The trouble is that damn near everyone will sacrifice your freedom for their family's comfort. People simply aren't noble as a whole.
by oldmanjay 11y ago
The trouble is that damn near everyone will sacrifice your freedom for their family's comfort. People simply aren't noble as a whole.
- xtian 11y agoIs that a fact? Or is it learned behavior? This sort of lazy, defeatist appeal to some rigid notion of human nature is a pernicious refrain in any discussion about real change. The only thing you can say for sure about humans is that we possess a capacity for change and adaptation whose bounds have yet to be identified. But if you want to live in a box, then that's what you'll get.