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- From: jjas@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu (Jason Stephenson)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan,talk.politics.guns
- Subject: Re: Guns & self defense
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- Date: 22 Nov 92 17:33:50 GMT
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- In-reply-to: pngai@adobe.com's message of 22 Nov 92 10:09:27 GMT
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- I will tell you why criminals commit crimes: why murderers murder and why
- rpists rape> because it is perfectly natural for the human animal to do these
- things. For the 60,000 years that our species has existed we have raped and
- killed as a matter of course, a matter of survival. Now, in the last one
- thousand years some philosopher decides that killing is 'bad' and that we must
- not kill any longer. So, someone is going to tell me that 60,000 years of
- biological programming is 'wrong?' Humans are violent by nature. You cannot
- tell me that our ancestors who hunted animals with masses of over ten times
- that of a Homo sapiens were not ferocious. Remember, all they had for a weapon
- was a poiinty stick or broken rock. We have changed little in these 60,000
- years. On the inside, in the deepest part of our brains, we are the same
- animal. What has changed are our external condidtions of living and our con-
- scious level of thought. But our desires, our needs, our instincts remain
- esentially the same. If you want a psychological explanation for rapes and
- crime and how our unnatural living conditions affect the human brain in an
- adverse manner read Freud's _Civilisation and its Discontents_. I will tell
- you this, humans are not, by nature, peaceful. Sixty thousand years of non-
- evolution prove that we remain ferocious predators. You might also want to
- read Desmond Morris', _The Naked Ape_.
-
- Jason
-