Quote:I could easily come up with a slightly moderated version of "The Lucifer Principle" which I would be prepared to assent to (e.g. that most people are capable in the right social context of extreme violence, and this could reasonably be said to be an enduring innate human characteristic)If I have any grasp of what Bloom is saying, this wouldn't do it. We can say a lot of things about human beings, and about other species, which are true, or which are reasonable and testable. But I hear Bloom asserting that these are basic scientific principles, as deep or deeper than evolution by natural selection itself. How we, specifically, have turned out would not be enough.