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So you believe that you have a way of changing the nature of humanity? This seems like the big claim, rather than the small one.


Read what I said instead of projecting what you think I said. I did not say anything about changing human nature.


you wrote “human nature is malleable”


Saying "I believe humans have the capacity to change certain habits" isn't close the same thing as saying "I have the means to make people change".


So you don't have a solution?


I'm afraid not. The brevity of my prior statements was never a suggestion that I had one, so if that's where the confusion you have is coming from, my bad.


That's a fact. If you were born somewhere else you would be an entirely different person. You'd be speaking a different language, you'd be involved in different social arrangements and institutions, and you'd think the axioms of your reality were entirely different.


Where is your evidence for that claim?


That you'd be an entirely different person in another time and place? That's pretty obvious to anyone that has traveled anywhere other than the place they were born.


Not at all. For instance, identical twins raised apart have remarkably similar IQ test results, personalities, and habits.




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