@acro47 So, you're saying we shouldn't blame the murderer for killing a person, because violence is "human nature?" I'd love to see you offer to let a serial killer live with you, rather than going to prison. After all, it wasn't their fault, right? It was the gun's fault.
We suppress our basal instincts ("human nature") every day, all day long in order to live within constructs acceptable by society. We don't beat the hell out of our bosses for making us work late. We don't shoot the clerk at the store and take whatever we want. We don't throw down every attractive person we meet and molest them. We also don't excuse other humans who violate these societal constructs. All of those things would be human nature. Cheating on your mate simply because it's "human nature" is the most neanderthal excuse I've ever heard. Doing it and then blaming a social networking site for your actions is beyond ridiculous. I'd love to see you beat somebody to death with a baseball bat and then offer the defense in court that it was the bat's fault, not yours because it's "human nature" to want to beat somebody who pisses you off and the bat just made it too easy to resist.
Life is a series of choices which create alternative futures. If you make a stupid choice, you should accept responsibility and live with the consequences.
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