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May 04, 2006 23:36

When a human is first thrust into the world, it has no feeling of right or wrong. It just exists. The only way people know what is right and what is wrong is because of a long history of learning the results of certain actions. The reason flipping someone off is crude is because umpteenth years ago someone found it insulting. Fuck is vulgar and ( Read more... )

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genius7023 May 5 2006, 00:16:57 UTC
nice argument...but i completely disagree...first off...your children would not live in harmony...because it is human nature not to...rebellion and selfishness are inate fibers to our existance...furthermore...history is oh so important in how it's supposed to be presented...those years of honing our societies are what generations have managed to learn from their mistakes...if history was never taught then we'd always start at gorund 0...or...the other option is to only teach the lessons we've learned from history but not the history itself...but that would be fucking horrible...because it would eliminate the possibility of seeing for ourselves...there'd be no unique viewpoints and there'd be no choice...a select few would decide that these are the lessons that should have been learned from this...and all would have to just take their word for it...so...not to be disagreeable...but i think you're full of shit,good sir:)

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cybertractor May 5 2006, 12:47:07 UTC
Hah.

Adam and Eve lived in harmony until an outside source interfered.

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markottoh May 5 2006, 09:31:27 UTC
I have been thinking the same thing for a while now.
Even to the extent of the sense of smell.
Would the smell of poop still smell horrid, if we were not raised to think it is? So on...

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cybertractor May 5 2006, 12:45:51 UTC
Hah. Kinda awkward example, but that's good.

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zenoxion May 6 2006, 19:02:37 UTC
I think I am a freudian....=\

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cybertractor May 7 2006, 15:12:47 UTC
You're awkward.

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