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“The human brain is not sexually dimorphic” 👏

He said there’s no evidence of people killing each other (like wars) more than 14,000 years ago and 👀👀👀

In the US we tend to highlight concepts of individual liberties and freedom of expression, elements that are heralded as natural rights to humans.

“Physical development, bio-enculturation, and social context: these perceptual skills, that emerge for each and every human being through a process of development in a historically specific environment, mesh with the physical and cognitive aspects of our development to help shape how we act and perceive ourselves and our world.”

“It is the ability to reason that enables us to escape the basic, animalistic facets of our inner nature (a form of free will, enabled or created and set in a motion by a deity).”

“This kind of idea about what a person’s basic self is can be played off what the individual (or society) tries to make of them. If the person fails, goes astray, or deviates from societal expectations we often say “that is just the way he (she) was born,” implying that despite the trappings of society, for some people (many people?) their nature is constantly trying to push through.