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by rowanG077 2505 days ago
I mean I can reject my nature and stop breathing. That is until I pass out and start breathing automatically. I can reject my nature and stop eating and drinking but that has swift death associated with it.

We can try and reject our nature but it seems eminently naive to me.

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And yet somehow you can resist an urge to kill unknown weak stranger and taking their possession. (that's what our ancestor did, but somehow its not normal anymore).
What's your proof that this in in humanities nature? Not all actions we took during history are in humanities nature.

It seems more likely to me that humans were forced to do stuff like that due to other things in our nature like needing to eat and drink.

By the demiurge?
This comment makes no sense to me.
Gnosticism, look it up.
Yes I know what it is. I simply don't understand what that has to do with my original comment.