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To: albie
We are all born evil.

One of the best life observations St. Augustine made in his Confessions was that a newborn baby, if he had the strength of a man, would maim or kill anyone who took away his food or denied him anything he wanted.

In the beginning, we all have that destructive rage in us.

Nurture may not make you much smarter, or taller, or better looking, but it does make the difference between being a moral person or not.

The issue here heavily involves Lanza's illness. Nurture cannot heal schizophrenia.

12 posted on 03/10/2014 3:05:40 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: wideawake

“Nurture cannot heal schizophrenia.”

Well, we don’t know all the causes of schizophrenia. So it could be that nurture can contribute to it, or alleviate it.


24 posted on 03/10/2014 3:30:22 PM PDT by Boogieman
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