To conclude this with contemporary specifics, the tragic and heart breaking political/social condition we now wake up to in the morning is not the result of brilliant Republican sociopaths (who are mostly just nuts and rich) but because of the crushing dead weight of human nature.
So it seems the ultimate question is whether human evil the result of ordinary human beings not “rising to their spiritual and intelligence” potential, but rather the Bush-like (and extinction bound) biological acting out of a tragically defective life form.
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W. Christopher Epler (Bill)
ps: The fact that the defective species theory is rarely considered could be seen as a proof of its correctness.
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