Reply #45: We are not hardwired for hate [View All]

[Dragonfli]

It is often the result of bad software.

Language as a virus does indeed target the worst parts of our nature, Calvinism is a good example of this.

Other software programs encourage the better parts of our nature, like Buddhism.

If there is a hardware inclination that you call "human nature" it would be more fruitful to learn which part of the brain it comes from, as we are born with evolving - competing "natures" the lesser evolved lizard portion can be quite nasty, the later grown cerebral cortex is more prone to reason and reasonable actions.

When reason prevails over the baser instincts, arguments for cooperation do quite well.
When the reflexive responses of hate to fear prevail, one acts like a nasty little lizard.

You should face the fact that any religion that appeals to this reflexive fear/hate part of our earliest nature would causing a great deal of harm.

I of course was not born with an innate belief in a tooth fairy that would spite the easter bunny or vice versa, so perhaps I am a bad example, with a flawed nature, incapable of understanding the obvious.

You were born with such beliefs eh? .....intersting. Perhaps I should learn from what is said to be a more common state.