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Are humans fundamentally good? (with Rutger Bregman)

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is There a Human Nature That Is Nonviolent?

"We inflict incredible violence on the planet," he says. "It seems hard for me to say or credit the view that our nature is somehow nonviolent" We are clearly one of the cruelest species, probably the cruelest in the animal kingdom,. But I'm just saying that in many ways this is a project of what we call civilization."

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