hmichellerose on Nostr: You could argue that until we evolve into something better than human, that there ...

You could argue that until we evolve into something better than human, that there will always be some percentage of the population that will rape and murder, etc. and so we have to just accept that and adjust accordingly. And to some extent that is true, but also…

Did you ever hear the story of the neuroscientist who discovered that he was a psychopath? Ya he was conducting a study and scanned his own brain in the process and identified that scan as a psychopathic brain. And yet he was not a rapist or a murderer, he was a decent family guy. He had come from a good household where he was loved and taught well and he did not become a monster. The moral of the story being that even if a certain percentage of the population will have brains that allow them to be monsters, the quality of the civilization they are living in will play a huge role in determining if that potential is reached or not.

And second, what we allow in a culture determines what a predator can get away with. There is a meme going around stating that a woman could walk drunk and naked into a party and the only way she would be rapped is if a rapist is also at that party. True, but it’s a bit more complicated than that. Let’s assume that 100 people are at that party and 5 of them are rapists… just blending into the crowd like normal people. When that naked woman comes stumbling into that party those 5 rapists will never make it to her if the other 95 people at that party have decent values. The only way those 5 rapists manage to get her upstairs and alone is if all 95 of the rest just look the other way and let it happen.

So, ya human’s evolve slowly. We will have this issue for a long time. But we could eliminate SO, SO many of these incidences if we just had a better culture. A culture where people were kind to others, and actively looked out for others, a culture where we didn’t accept rape etc. as just a part of life.