Tori Markwell’s Reviews > Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature > Status Update
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“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.
— Apr 23, 2024 08:31PM
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In the US we tend to highlight concepts of individual liberties and freedom of expression, elements that are heralded as natural rights to humans.
— Apr 24, 2024 03:03PM
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“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.”
— Apr 24, 2024 02:55PM
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“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).”
— Apr 23, 2024 08:39PM
