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Axiom. You were born perfect.

Prior. If it pleases, then it is good.

Bias. If the idea of an animal doing X sounds silly, then doing X is silly.


The axiom may not hold: you might have cystic fibrosis, which is caused by this particular gene, CFTR. There are other things things said to have genetic causes, but for which a particular gene is not known. There is a special phrase to be used for this kind of situation: "not caused by anything genetic". The axiom proves it ain't you; I suggest checking the elephant.

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2Dagon3dI think you'd need to define "perfect", "good", and "silly" before I really know what you're claiming. By naive interpretation of the words, all three are simply wrong. Almost all humans are born helpless and screaming, causing great physical pain to their mothers. Many things please while causing large amounts of future harm. Many things that sound silly at first turn out to be useful or necessary. Besides, I prefer silly.

Thank you for making me clean up my thoughts on this. (I hope.)

It's about health, happiness, nature, and nurture.

You could take a baby, make her as healthy as you like, let her be "perfect", and as she grows, she may yet develop some illness due to environmental causes. She is born without arthritis, without cavities in her unerupted teeth, without diabetes , without asthma, without cancer. Yet let her loose in Los Angeles for seven decades, watch what becomes of your perfectly healthy baby! Okay, so maybe you weren't really born perfec... (read more)

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by purpleposeidon 1st Feb 20203 comments

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