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The Naturalistic Fallacy of Human Nature
When I think of sort of the Enlightenment project and when I think of culture in general, I see there being a tussle between sort of two impulses. And one is an impulse for culture to reinforce our programming but at the same time it can also act to mitigate our programming. So are you saying that at some point you have to draw a line that we can tamper with human nature up to a certain point or we can mitigate human nature? Well, I think that what you're bringing out is that whatever it is that our original programming was intended to do is not necessarily the best, right?