Ive been told human nature as many things…
And most humans seem to lack human nature…
Is my nature distorted… or is theirs…?
And can somebody define human nature for me please… My definitions of it may be wrong…
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i had another website opened while i was writing that
and i just clicked on a random quote about wisdom
and this came up
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
-Juvenal
Ok…
Best description of human nature is in the matrix when the agent describes the human race as a virus.
so why do we even bother…?
why do you waste your time on this website…?
An bsides that…
viruses are different
explain to me this virus please…
In her book, “Animals in Translation;” Dr. Temple Grandin makes the argument that the human brain has gone through three major evolutionary spurts. Each of these brains is responsible for different aspects of our nature, as i see it.
the soul, it seems to me, is a semantic structure born into a political environment; the reptilian aspect is too common, it identifies no freedom. Maybe?
Hi. The ancients knew a lot about human nature: no machines, no computers – I think they saw it clearly, and their perspective is awe inspiring. One of the greatest of these thinkers was Plato, whose definition comes down to us through the ages:
“Man is a featherless biped.”
…Kinda makes you think, doesn’t it? 
Of course it was his protege, Aristotle, who defined “nature” as “a principle of movement or rest within a thing”, and his definition for man seems to have had more holding power over man’s thought than Plato’s – through Roman times and into Scholastic thought:
“Man is a rational animal.”
Which works great for Catholics, who believe man’s nature is good, but somehow flawed by Original Sin, distance from God; whose effect is (in part), “the darkening of the intellect, and the weakening of the will”.
Does that sound like “most humans” to you?
mrn
Because, like all animals, we have an instinct that makes us want to survive.
To give you a hard time.
Human nature in a nutshell.
That’s human culture, not human nature. Clearly economics, not ecologics. Safety offerings and the delusion of ego. It’s human nature to cut through the bullshit but; you have to be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I beg to differ, human behavior is classified as human nature.
If it were true. Since the beginnings of agriculture, humans have tried to raise their own food in seclusion from the chances of the natural state, like the new art of fish-farming, when resources grow scarce. It’s like that other movie with Will Smith in it, Independence Day, where humanity is horrified by the intentions of the conquering and insatiable aliens. See, human nature, which wrote these movies, can be horrified by it’s own intemperance too.
Second, Clapton is not God. God is Bono … or at least Bonum.
mrn
How could you say such things!?
Off with his head!!!
Although that is true with organics, minerals are still going.
Well, I’m sure we would manufacture them out of something else if possible – like substituting plastics for other materials, or making artificial gems…or substituting hydrogen for gasoline.
Besides, what other animals compete with us for minerals?
Elephants are quite fond of salt… 
But seriously, substituting inorganics for inorganics can last only so long, thus the virus bit was very appropriate. When we finish with the planet we better start mining on another or we are gunna be screwed 
Well, if you want to get all legalistic but; i might argue that human culture is not evident in the behavior of a single human organism.
To skip the semantics, how about we ground some concepts in the structure and function of the brain? Behaviors that result from inate, genetically coded structures could be considered ‘human nature’ and behaviors that result from learned sructures could be ‘human culture.’
I understand that, ultimately, it’s all human nature but; in order to facilitate a critical examination of one’s own culture, i think it makes sense to understand a distinction and its ground.
Ishmael makes a good point.
We do not have to be takers. Sustainability is a lesson that must be learned.
anthropomorphic fallacy
-Imp
I’d say that human nature is essentially animalistic - we act on the survival instinct. The fundamental difference between us and other animals is that our functions maintain a level of complexity that allows us to overlook this essential animalism and intellectualise our functions into something greater, in vain. I think we can see traces of this latent animalism within all of our relationships and actions: in the way we choose a mate, in our insistent selfishness, in our desire for our own territory, etc.
Human nature was not meant for the high population sitation seen today.
Humanity will fail and die.
Capitolist, Freebirth scum shall destroy us all!
Looks like the only way to save ourselves from the destruction of humanity is to kill ourselves… so let’s get to it then.
human nature; we are all aware/sentiant, we all have conceptions,we all need air/food/water, we are all mortal. beyond that, human life is only limited by economics, physics, biology. some of us adhere to established moral standards(judicial law/ religion)- referance conception(we all belive what we want) that is the base set of charectoristics all humans have, aka our nature.