Quote Originally Posted by xerxe View Post
They have tended to be very scholarly individual; better-educated than average, especially in fields like history. They're more likely to be sympathetic to people's suffering, even if it's at an abstract level. They're more opinionated than average, and more willing to dissent. They tend to be more excitable, and quicker to want decisive action against what they regard as unjustness or unfairness. They're more likely to have very rigid convictions about right and wrong.
I really don't get this. I'd think education would lead one to realize that nature is red in tooth and claw, that love of human life is just another prejudice, and most of nature's life cycles are one organism dominating another, not living harmoniously. Why do we have this spook that enlightened = egalitarian? What forces nature to care about our petty bullshit?