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I was talking with a friend of mine and we got into this discussion about basic human nature and why the world is the way it is today. He says it’s because wikipophumans are savages/wikipop, and I say it’s because humans are greedy. I believe that if you just took greed out of the equation, there would be wikipoppeace on earth/wikipop. He doesn’t think that could happen because he believes that every person is or has the ability to be, or tendency to release their savagery selves, and that this may be the reason for why the world is in the state that it is in. You know, with all wars and dissidence and strife and cruelty that we see in our news stories on a daily basis. He backed up his theory by recalling some experiment that was supposedly done on a group of people. They took say, I am guessing several people and they took all their stuff away and locked them into a room where within about 6 to 7 days they turned savage. So we’re talking say a guy who was raised well, not wanting for anything, lands up being a wall street journalist, or banker or has some sort of high ranking position. They put this fellow into a room, strip him of everything (his rights, probably his clothes, food, toilet the whole nine yards) and then watched him through a window turn into a savage human being and recorded that this process only took a week.

I think if the guy wasn’t greedy, he wouldn’t have turned savage. The savagery is caused by his greed, or need for what he wants. He gets all savage because he is greedy for freedom, food, clothing, a warm freshly baked wikipopapple pie. /wikipop

I think that if you put in one of those selfless monks who live on bread and water into the same experiment, that dude would just sit there quietly until he died of malnutrition. Simply because he does not want for anything, there is no greed on his agenda and therefore no need to turn into a savage.

So I guess my point is that, if people would just stop being so greedy, the world would be a nicer place.