The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #69104   Message #1261814
Posted By: Amos
01-Sep-04 - 02:44 PM
Thread Name: Faith in People & their goodness
Subject: RE: Faith in People & their goodness
Martin:

Bad action, I submit, is not the basic layer of human nature. It is the efffect of (among other things) invalidation and overwhelm by force.

When you resort to free-for-all badmouthing, of course, you forward those vectors.

The more basic nature of the individual -- the side that seeks to be and do good -- does not "erase" with therapy but grows stronger. The darker side, which you have identified as human nature, does diminish with more looking and ocmmunicating of a therapeutic sort. This gives you a clear notion as to which is more basic than the other.

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