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<blockquote data-quote="mugsy" data-source="post: 2019428" data-attributes="member: 18914"><p>Who said the human race is very peaceful? </p><p></p><p>For most the religious among us - concupiscence, the propensity toward sin, is a well understood phenomenon which along with free will leads us to need men to band together to protect the weak and helpless, and in the case of the United States, to also protect the freedom of our citizens by limiting the power and scope of government.</p><p>For the areligious one need only look around to see the capacity of men to do evil...but if you look more deeply you will also see the capacity for great good.</p><p></p><p>I think you are wrong to say we're built for combat, violence, and mayhem. We have many capacities and it is our choices in relation to natural law that make them bad or good. Some combat fights evil, some combat is the evil. But the same hands that can strangle can also by an act of will or faith become hands that comfort the sick or the lame or the elderly. Those choices are acted upon every day in a million different ways. Our job is to build a society that supports and promotes the acts of good and kindness while doing what we can to limit the bad. It will never be perfect, men aren't perfectible, but we can hold the line.</p><p></p><p>BTW - I think the obvious answer about games violence is that is does appeal to some especially young men who are naturally oriented toward action and physical activity (yes even virtual activity). But when you combine the ability to produce highly realistic immersive violence games and a weakening family and moral structure - you get what I think we are seeing right now -- disconnected, violence prone males who have become somewhat insensitive to violence at the same time that they have lost empathy (or maybe never learned) for fellow humans and have little to no moral training as a baseline for judging their own actions. This is a very bad combination.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mugsy, post: 2019428, member: 18914"] Who said the human race is very peaceful? For most the religious among us - concupiscence, the propensity toward sin, is a well understood phenomenon which along with free will leads us to need men to band together to protect the weak and helpless, and in the case of the United States, to also protect the freedom of our citizens by limiting the power and scope of government. For the areligious one need only look around to see the capacity of men to do evil...but if you look more deeply you will also see the capacity for great good. I think you are wrong to say we're built for combat, violence, and mayhem. We have many capacities and it is our choices in relation to natural law that make them bad or good. Some combat fights evil, some combat is the evil. But the same hands that can strangle can also by an act of will or faith become hands that comfort the sick or the lame or the elderly. Those choices are acted upon every day in a million different ways. Our job is to build a society that supports and promotes the acts of good and kindness while doing what we can to limit the bad. It will never be perfect, men aren't perfectible, but we can hold the line. BTW - I think the obvious answer about games violence is that is does appeal to some especially young men who are naturally oriented toward action and physical activity (yes even virtual activity). But when you combine the ability to produce highly realistic immersive violence games and a weakening family and moral structure - you get what I think we are seeing right now -- disconnected, violence prone males who have become somewhat insensitive to violence at the same time that they have lost empathy (or maybe never learned) for fellow humans and have little to no moral training as a baseline for judging their own actions. This is a very bad combination. [/QUOTE]
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