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And yet most people still deny it (as evidenced by your being downvoted). Our unique talents also include abstract reasoning and communication as well as advan
by OneWordSoln 9y ago
And yet most people still deny it (as evidenced by your being downvoted).
Our unique talents also include abstract reasoning and communication as well as advanced tool making, yet most human beings are still acting within the mammalian level of behavior which mostly comprises pack warfare and alpha-dominance seeking, and we are all witness to the disastrous effects those sub-human tendencies are having upon each other as well as the Earth itself (via our short-term profit-seeking over the long-term well-being of the Earth for our descendants benefit).
Love -- via selfless service to others' happiness -- is the most unique of human traits as it facilitates our rising above our mammalian tendencies (literally, from a brain structure standpoint) to segregate and wage war upon others of any perceived difference, be it physical (ethnic) or ideological (form of religion, neighborhood, country, sexual orientation or identity, etc.).
Only by accepting the primacy of our free wills upon this Earth and the necessity of our training our minds to differentiate good from evil and then choosing the former can we stop the devastation of the Earth and its less fortunate individuals.
Until then, the vast majority of human beings will remain, as Wisdom states, "like the animals, only worse".
- LMYahooTFY 9y agoI don't know that most people deny it, nor that down votes on this thread are evidence of anything... It can't be modeled scientifically. People deny it because it's in effect a dogma. I don't say that as a slight, our society is built on the notion of free will. It's simply that the notions exist in a level of abstraction, so the point is moot if you continue living your day to day life, except insofar as you let it affect your mental state.
- nukeop 9y agoNot everything has to be modeled scientifically in order to be true. Science is not the only source of truth.