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To: letters@nytimes.com Re: Our animal nature and the socio-economic environment Date: Tuesday, 10 May 05 |
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Dear Sir/Madam,
What almost everyone
- right across the political
spectrum - fails to
recognise and face up to is
that our entire socio-economic
order is deeply rooted in
man's animal nature ("Nature
at Bay").
In view of what
Darwin taught us about human
origins, this should hardly
surprise us, but like
Christian fundamentalists, we
refuse to accept, or even
contemplate it.
Because doing so
would undermine, not necessarily
our religious beliefs, but the
religiously held values,
attitudes and (material)
aspirations that underlie (not
just) the American way of
life.
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