On the Face of It Where the Facts Lead Us The left has been weighing in on the wrong side for so long it is no wonder they now have become so insignificant an influence - except among liberal, mostly middle-class, effete idealists, but there is nothing idealistic about the world or life on the planet -- as much as we would want it to be.
Ideal worlds are for novels. They are not real. There is a very real dark side. It is human nature although the left has always come down on the side of the blank slate theory, that we are all born innocent and what we are is what we learn. Since the mapping of the genome and other new research the indication which is supported by most scientists is we are born with instincts which are at least (likely more) as necessary as what we learn for our survival. It is an inherent trait in all living organisms, quite essential for surviving and in our case becoming the most populous species on the planet. It is imprinted in our DNA. Morality is What We Say it Is Nature is important when we measure the way human beings behave. Nurture plays a big part too but since the mapping of the human genome and what we now know about genes it is less of a theory and more about reality that evolution determines much of everything, including our instincts for behavior which are not necessary moral. And morality, after-all, is a human construction. People are not as inherently good as the left would want to believe. That only happens in the make-believe world of fiction. Selfishness and greed are real and must be considered as essential to the equation because although it saddens me to say it, they are necessities of life. Without it our species would not have survived as long as it has. Just as with it our species is liable not to survive as long as we would like. Continued: MORE: http://pnews.org/ArT/WaR/FacTS.shtml
