The Wealthy Have 'Worked Hard' And Deserve To Keep Their Money

[Mairead]

155. From that response, I'm fairly sure you don't know what "human nature" is

Contrary to the propaganda put about by the psychopathic elites, human nature is neither more nor less than personal adaptability.

We humans, unlike any other species we know about, are able to change our personal behavioral repertoires completely within our personal lifespans. We are extremely adaptable, serial processors of limited capacity. We have larger, more capable brains than those of our ape relatives, but they're still ape brains.

Research on identical twins raised apart (you can read about some of it here: http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/genetic/twin1.htm) has shown that about 40% of "who we are" is due to genetics, 60% to environment.

Humans routinely adapt to the most disparate types of lives, whether privileged penthouse in NYC, nomadic yurt in Mongolia, or a palm-thatched house on a beach in Polynesia.

Whatever the situation in which we find ourselves, we adapt. If it's a healthy, pro-social situation, we become healthier and more pro-social. If it's pathological and anti-social, we become more pathologised and anti-social. The people who ran the camps and ovens in Nazi Germany were not of a different species to those whose stomachs turned inside out in horror at the sight.

Right now, psychopaths are in charge. If we leave them in charge, they will be the death of us all. That's because they're impaired. They lack feelings of fear, empathy, and remorse. So it's not important to them whether we live or die. What's important is that they stay in power no matter what the cost (see Diamond's Collapse for a discussion of some civilisations that went belly-up because their ruling classes "were willing to kill everyone as long as they were the last to die&quot .

So either we get rid of them and build a future without them -a future that would surely look very like the one I described- or they will get rid of us. It's our choice.