> On Sep 4, 10:30 pm, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:
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>> "Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational,
>> brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his
>> wn interests are involved - that about sums it up. I'm interested in
>> the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of
>> him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of
>> the nature of man is probably doomed to failure." - Stanley Kubrick

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>> This is such a great quote.

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>> Let us remember that:
>> "**ANY** attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the
>> nature of man is probably doomed to failure."

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>> And that includes other nations...

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>> And that we should be:
>> "interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a
>> true picture of him."

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>> dot dot dot

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> If these behaviors are parts of our nature and there are other less
> violent parts of our nature why are some parts of our nature good and
> others bad?