re: #192 dangerman
i am sometimes frightened thinking about how much culture, circumstances, surroundings, etc direct and create who we are - the whole swap two babies at birth thing…
i like to think ive grown up rational, logical, skeptical, regardless of my specifics. and that it is a reflection of the true natural world. still i wonder…
Right. Like there’s that famous story about the identical twins. One grew up Jewish and one grew up a Nazi. I really do like to think I’d done the right thing i.e. WWII, Civil Rights, etc but I can’t know for sure having not been there. I hope I would have.