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- Desires to hit people you hate and fuck people you find attractive are built into our minds and bodies by millions of years of evolution yet most people find not running around assaulting and raping to be pretty easy.

- Most terrible things people do are for the gain or preservation of resources and most people either have kids or want them. Piracy, animal poaching, bear bile farms, kidnapping and ransoming people, making and selling hard drugs, organised crime in general, war, telemarketing. Most people doing this aren't millionaires looking to buy yacht number 4, it's largely people just providing for their kids and we rightly hate those people anyway. So again not really a defence.



> Desires to hit people you hate and fuck people you find attractive are built into our minds and bodies by millions of years of evolution yet most people find not running around assaulting and raping to be pretty easy.

You're equating assault and rape with leaving money for your kids.

I think it's obvious why not doing the first 2 is pretty easy and not doing the last is pretty hard.


No I'm not. I'm choosing two particularly bad activities that would be justified by their choice of reasoning if it was valid, to show that it's not valid. They're the ones that brought up millions of years of evolution as if it doesn't apply to all behaviour.

If it covers rape and murder it's not exactly a good defence for not being bad for society.




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