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Old Nov 29, 2006, 05:05 pm   #23 (permalink) (top)
Fonceai
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I cannot accept that. If the mind is malleable, so is it the larger congregation of minds as a collective.

If it was otherwise, humanity would be truly hopeless.
I accept it because the ability to find shortcuts and convenience are hallmarks of humanity. Labels are a mental and verbal shortcut.

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Then one must work to create a culture where convenience is not viewed as the ultimate virtue. I do not see how it can be done, but I am sure there is a way and I will continue to try to find it.
I absolutely agree with both your opinion and your assessment of the possibility (or impossibility) of it actually happening.

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What if the mentally lazy od so out of their cultural integration, rather thna predisposition or choice?
Nature vs. Nurture?

I don't know. I would opinion that it is Nurture, and therefore cultural and reversible.

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If that is the case, then I think there is value in the struggle against this attitude of applying other's chosen labels for them.
That's why I post the way I post; because easy labels and extremist associations allow people to shortcut their way past expressing themselves with their intellect and not their lazy disposition.
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