On Being a Biological Pragmatist
Before I get to tellin’ the teen girls what to do (yes I really mean it), I thought I would give a bit of my world view. We are human animals and you can’t take the Homo Sapien out of men/women no matter how you try. The best we can do is recognize how our nature influences our behavior and then decide if there is a good reason to fight against that nature. There are many times to fight against our first urges, it just wouldn’t do for me to stick a shiv into someone any time they piss me off. But many other times we are asked to modify our behavior for no good reason, or for bad reasons. We evolved as social beings in a certain structure and now live in a very different way, with good and bad coming of it. That’s the biological part.
The second part is the pragmatist in me. What works is the truth. An ideology that is logical within itself (what “should be”), but does not work in the real world is incomplete. It leads to frustration instead of results. This affects my view of social interactions, education, politics, religion, and more. Sometimes my views may seem liberal (most of the time), and other times conservative or maybe even reactionary. Just refer back to this, and you might be a bit less confused.
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