humans are evil in the same way that if you teach a dog to bite, it will bite. nature is made and social creatures are constructed by the society left to them. the villains that inspire you to vilify humanity itself have a specific history, and it is not the story of all peoples everywhere.
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crows call me breadlady (garbados@friend.camp)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 18:35:48 UTC 
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RD (rd4anarchy@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 18:35:47 UTC 
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Very well put!
Here's an interesting thread with great examples of this:
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CJ Paloma's Revival (cjpaloma@tooters.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 18:37:35 UTC 
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@garbados I am on a bit of a quest to get people to just STOP using the word "nature" to describe whatever it is they see fully enculturated people (or other domesticated critters) doing.
Basically everything we think, do, and believe is a result of enculturation, not nature. Nature has given us a lack of tails, and bi pedal ways of ambulating, but we can't even understand really basic things without being fully enculturated into languages that enable us to do so.
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Jessπ§ββοΈ (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 18:37:38 UTC 
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In a very real sense, the nature of a species is not simply a distinct organic being absent of any environment or context. It's the whole thing. Their ecosystem, their upbringing by their parent(s)/community, their socialization, their predators, their food, their competition for their food. When you change those variables, the very nature of the species changes in unpredictable ways, even if the genome itself hasn't changed in the slightest.
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