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Mike
10/22/2015 04:59:54 pm
We need rules and structures because otherwise
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Mr. Main
10/24/2015 08:09:15 am
Why do you think people act this way Mike? What compels people to harm and steal?
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Mike
10/24/2015 02:44:35 pm
because they have lost a family member or theyre friends are not good people
Logan
10/22/2015 05:48:38 pm
Personally I believe that every human is born innocent and peaceful. Over time we learn to be more aggressive and we begin to kill and harm to gain things. Then rules and structures are put in place to keep us in place. So I believe that when we are first born we are all innocent and peaceful but learn to be more aggressive and then we need rules and structures to be put in place.
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Mr. Main
10/24/2015 08:13:15 am
Well put Logan. What do you believe would happen if people were freed from rules and structures?
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Janet
10/22/2015 09:29:40 pm
I think that all humans would be innocent and peaceful.I think they were innocent and peaceful because we would need to help each other to survive.They would live together to keep company. They also learn to be aggressive to hunt food, but then we would start needing rules.
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Mr. Main
10/24/2015 08:16:44 am
Good response Janet. Is it only when people are stressed for resources that they become violent? Do you think that means we are born both Peaceful and Aggressive?
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Janet
10/27/2015 05:59:07 pm
Yes I think when they get angry and need resources they will start to steal.That is why I think they are both peaceful and aggressive.
ABE LINCOLN :P
10/23/2015 07:45:38 am
I think that all humans are born peaceful [ minus the kicking & screaming] because:
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Mr. Main
10/24/2015 08:18:09 am
Good points Abe. At what point in our lives do people develop aggressive personalities?
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Aidan aka pancake man aka person aka human... Maybe! Don don dooooon
10/25/2015 11:02:50 am
I think that people are never born innocent. I saying that people will have to learn to be innocent... Unless it's Magic. Which obviously it's not. People would never be born innocent or angels or anything like that they would have to use their common sense and rules given to them by adults.
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Mr. Main
10/27/2015 11:28:04 pm
???
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J.B
10/25/2015 02:10:15 pm
As hard as it is to say, humans are not at all born innocent and peaceful. We need rules and structure to keep us in order. Without structure the world would be a dark terrible place. We are selfish, greedy and egocentric. Even-though we deem ourselves higher than other organisms because we are more evolved, we create weapons of mass destruction and kill our own species for religious beliefs, money, power...To sum it all up, even with rules and structures we still do terrible things.
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Mr. Main
10/27/2015 11:12:29 pm
Well written comments JB. Interesting that we consider ourselves more evolved than other animals, yet humans still act like animals at times.
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Jaden Lamothe (the better Jaden)
10/25/2015 04:53:07 pm
I don't think humans are born innocent and peaceful, they need to learn to be that way. i think it depends on their parents or friends/peers (peer pressure, irresponsible parents).
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Jaden Lamothe (the better Jaden)
10/25/2015 05:02:07 pm
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Mr. Main
10/27/2015 11:14:44 pm
Very true that often our least desirable characteristics appear as a result of fear & greed.
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Hunter
10/25/2015 07:17:35 pm
I think humans need rules and structures to keep as many people in line as possible beacause without them their would be mass destruction
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Mr. Main
10/27/2015 11:16:36 pm
Sadly, even with rules in place people break them for their own gain, or to exact revenge on others.
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Saymoora
10/26/2015 05:56:10 am
For my opinion I think that all human need rules because if you don't have rules then everyone would go out of their mind and go crazy and people need rules so that they will know what's good or what's bad.
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Mr. Main
10/27/2015 11:18:49 pm
What if the rules in place benefit some, but oppress many. Then are rules still good?
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Mr. Main
10/27/2015 11:20:31 pm
Interesting how rules and laws are in place sometimes to protect ourselves from our own tendencies to make bad choices.
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Lana
10/26/2015 02:57:01 pm
I think humans need rules and structures because without them We could do anything when we want. without them there would be lots of harm, and it would be unbalanced. Rules and structures show us the path. Earth would be crazy without them.
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Mr. Main
10/27/2015 11:22:13 pm
Animals don't have rules... Yet the seem to coexist. We do we need rules?
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Ishaan
10/26/2015 05:24:57 pm
I think humans need rules to keep us on the right path. If we did not have any rules there will be a lot of destruction to the earth and people.
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Mr. Main
10/27/2015 11:24:05 pm
But are we born bad... Or do we learn to be bad. Is it genetic or a learned behaviour?
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bre
10/27/2015 04:08:10 pm
we need rules and structures because we would be crazy. people would steal, kill and injure people a lot more. jail wouldn't be a thing, there would be no borders and no police. this world would be horrible without rules and structures!
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Mr. Main
10/27/2015 11:25:28 pm
Are you saying you would kill and steal if there weren't laws against it?
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SaraC
10/27/2015 08:56:14 pm
I don't think humans are born innocent because:
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Mr. Main
10/27/2015 11:27:35 pm
Even with laws and Rules people are horrible to one another. What more can we do to encourage people to be more respectful of others and nature?
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Daniel
10/29/2015 06:14:17 pm
In my opinion humans are born innocent, and then they learn to be aggressive and be stubborn, then they would need rules
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Mr. Main
11/2/2015 07:30:18 pm
How do people learn to be stubborn Daniel? Often people will say, "I'm stubborn like my dad (or mom)". Do you think stubbornness genetic, or something people learn from their parents and others?
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SaraC
10/29/2015 09:05:17 pm
We could not agree to war and square off more sections of wildlife so people won't cut down as many trees?
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Mr. Main
11/7/2015 07:19:27 am
Good ideas Sara. I couldn't agree more that we need to share the earth with all living creatures and need to preserve more territory as wildlife and nature reserves.
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SaraC
10/29/2015 09:11:49 pm
Also I think that humans need rules, because practically everyone has rules. Even animals. A wolf has to obey his leader. That's a rule. (I read that somewhere) that's just another reason o think we need rules.
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mini
10/30/2015 12:28:45 pm
I believe that humans were born innocent and peaceful. They are born innocent but grow into bad habits. Some humans, as they grow up, are influenced by good people so they don't grow into bad habits like criminals or drugs. I believe human are innocent because they did nothing wrong to harm the earth, they just do bad things because the want attention or they choose to be bad. That's why I believe humans are innocent.
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Isaiah
11/3/2015 08:07:51 pm
Humans have polluted, though. And that harms the Earth.
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Isaiah
11/3/2015 08:06:33 pm
I think when humans are born they have no idea if they are innocent and peaceful or aggressive and harmful because they're mind hasn't developed yet. As we get older we learn to act more aggressive from things we see, but we should have rules to keep us from doing bad stuff.
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Mr. Main
11/7/2015 07:47:44 am
Excellently formed point of view Isaiah. If someone was only ever surrounded by happiness and love, would they have anger and hatred??
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Aidan Mayotte
11/4/2015 08:29:34 am
I think that humans are not born evil or peaceful, but they would have to use rules and there parents would have to help them with being evil or peaceful.
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Mr. Main
11/7/2015 07:22:36 am
Interesting Aidan. You are suggesting that good or evil is a learned characteristic.
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Kendra
11/6/2015 09:59:44 am
I think are not born evil or peaceful its the person that that they look up to which makes them the way they are. If someone is born with a bad example to look up to they will probably have a bad nature but I f you have a good example to look up to you will probably be good natured.
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Mr. Main
11/7/2015 07:44:36 am
Good or Evil is influenced. Well explained point of view Kendra.
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Taylor
11/9/2015 01:49:26 pm
I think that humans are born innocent and peaceful when they are born but we need rules and structures to keep us in order as we get older. If we didn't have rules, humans would be doing anything they want. We are born peaceful but the world changes us. It makes humans selfish. So without rules and structures people would be stealing from banks, killing other people for no reason. Without rules the world would be a dark world because even though we have rules and structures, bad things still happen but it's not as bad as it would be without rules.
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Mr. Main
11/23/2015 10:17:11 am
Excellent response Taylor. I wonder if things would be different in the world, if people could maintain their peaceful nature throughout their lives. If that were the case, the world would definitely be a better place, and we wouldn't have the tragedies we have seen that past couple weeks in France and Mali.
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Joey
11/9/2015 02:33:17 pm
I think that we need rules and structures because people who don't like to follow the rules need to be put somewhere (like prison) or else they will just keep doing the thing that they like to do and in some cases they can be horrible things that affect other people. I believe that everyone is born innocent and peaceful but over time but people choose their personalities and who they become. People take their own paths so we need rules and structures to keep people from doing bad things.
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Mr. Main
11/23/2015 10:20:30 am
Very true Joey. If the world were full of people who only ever made good, respectful and right decisions. We wouldn't have a need for prisons, police or even punishment. But as the saying goes, to "err is human"...some people's errors are unfortunately worse than simple mistakes.
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Meghan
11/25/2015 01:07:46 pm
I believe that humans are not born innocent or peaceful. They just have to learn how to be,well, innocent and peaceful.
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