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> not going to change human nature

I dislike this kind of argument. Sometimes you see it trotted out regarding crime, and that it's impossible to e.g. stop people killing or burgling or thieving in general.

Except - we're doing a pretty good job of reducing such crimes.

It's easy to write off pretty much well any undesirable action as being "human nature" and I implore you to reconsider.




You missed out the first half of my sentence:

> David Cameron passing a few laws or conducting some kind of investigation is not going to change human nature

I agree that change is possible, but it's not going to come from the top. We the people need to push for that kind of change, but half the population is too busy repeating the establishment's line that "it's all the fault of immigrants".


> not going to change human nature

I'm doing a poor job of explaining myself; it's reasoning corruption as "human nature" that I have the bigger issue with.

(I do agree that few issues are ever going to be solved with politicians' soundbites!)


How do you define corruption? (Serious question, not snarky. I suspect we are on the same side of the fence here.)




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