{"id":642,"date":"2010-03-23T05:05:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T21:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=642"},"modified":"2013-12-27T08:45:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T00:45:17","slug":"man-is-the-creature-of-circumstances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"Man is the creature of circumstances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong><em>&#8220;And who makes the circumstances but man himself? <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong><em>The world is not inevitably good or bad but to the extent that we make it so.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>~ John Stuart Mill, philosopher ~<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In solving this chicken and egg question, man can no longer shift the blame onto others when something goes wrong. But it brings out two plausible polemic viewpoints, as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Positive<\/strong><\/span>: As long as mankind permits and is willing to, the world can indeed become a better place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Negative<\/strong><\/span>: But what about those who are born bad? The assumption here of course, is that man isn&#8217;t born with a blank slate, because he has genes inherited from his predecessors; even if a baby has the luck to start life with a blank slate, a safe and optimistic nurturing process cannot be guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So is the world in a good or bad state now? Because knowing the answer to this question allows us to know whether there are more good or bad guys around us.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:40px;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/?p=642\" send=\"true\" layout=\"button_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"verdana\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And who makes the circumstances but man himself? The world is not inevitably good or bad but to the extent that we make it so.&#8221; ~ John Stuart Mill, philosopher ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailyramles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6495,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/6495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peepor.net\/pint\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}