{"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":"

“And who makes the circumstances but man himself? <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The world is not inevitably good or bad but to the extent that we make it so.”<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

~ John Stuart Mill, philosopher ~<\/strong><\/span>
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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

Positive<\/strong><\/span>: As long as mankind permits and is willing to, the world can indeed become a better place.<\/p>\n

Negative<\/strong><\/span>: But what about those who are born bad? The assumption here of course, is that man isn’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

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