Steven Pinker Quotes

The Dread Of A Permanently Wicked Human Nature Takes Two Forms. One Is A Practical Fear: That Social Reform Is A Waste Of Time Because Human Nature Is Unchangeable. The Other Is A Deeper Concern, Which Grows Out Of The Romantic Belief That What Is Natural Is Good. According To The Worry, If Scientists Suggest It Is "natural" - Part Of Human Nature - To Be Adulterous, Violent, Ethnocentric, And Selfish, They Would Be Implying That These Traits Are Good, Not Just Unavoidable.

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