>core human "nature:" what we are when all the surface level stuff is stripped away.
That always seemed out of whack for me. If you change the environment, the individual changes too.
That's just a different individual, calling it more "true" or "pure" seems like asking "how much is 1 + apple?" (where Apple is an actual apple, not a variable).
The whole premise is fundamentally wrong. How I am right now is not false nor unnatural.
Exactly. There have never been culturaless, parentless people. If there were/are, then that is simply a terrible circumstance and terrible results will probably occur.
That always seemed out of whack for me. If you change the environment, the individual changes too.
That's just a different individual, calling it more "true" or "pure" seems like asking "how much is 1 + apple?" (where Apple is an actual apple, not a variable).
The whole premise is fundamentally wrong. How I am right now is not false nor unnatural.