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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 25 Oct 2014

    John Gray explains why Canada, NZ, & Switzerland have been wracked by brutal civil wars for centuries.http://goo.gl/iQNJkH 

    3:58 PM - 25 Oct 2014
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      1. Paula Wright‏ @SexyIsntSexist 26 Oct 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker Politicians of yesteryear didnt have to battle with a cynical press & spoilt populace. The past is a different country @wikileaks

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      1. Goffredo Puccetti‏ @goffredodotcom 25 Oct 2014
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        @sapinker Pffff.... I did not catch the irony at first... Please don't do it again. :-)

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      1. Greymagus‏ @greymagus 25 Oct 2014
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        @sapinker It's a prime example of the 'gas law' at work: words expand to fill the space available.

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      1. (((CZARKING)))‏ @CZAR__KING 26 Oct 2014
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        @sapinker I take it that classic style applies to Tweets as much as any other mode of writing. The second mouse gets the cheese as it were.

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      1. Kenneth Crook‏ @kenneth1crook 26 Oct 2014
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        @sapinker How does Gray continue to get away with it? For a philosopher he has a remarkable inability to think in a consistent manner.

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      1. Nick Wiltshire‏ @NicWiltshire 26 Oct 2014
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        @sapinker Ffs JG - unreadably bitter, magisterially deluded, as usual.

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      2. Steve Murray‏ @SteveMurrayM4 26 Oct 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker So your binary outlook trounces J G's? I've read yours and his books, both have valid points, but miss fundamental chaos of nature

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      3. pweese no banny‏ @unhiddenness 26 Oct 2014
        Replying to @SteveMurrayM4

        @SteveMurrayM4 both Pinker and Gray are overrated IMAO

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      1. Blind Follower‏ @followblinder 26 Oct 2014
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        @sapinker Switzerland *has* been plagued with civil wars for centuries, mostly religious. Just not recently.

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      1. David Kieltyka‏ @Tele1953 25 Oct 2014
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        @sapinker Despite Gray's blindness to the possibility of human progress, he makes many good points here. We are innately flawed creatures.

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      1.  ‏ @vyapada 25 Oct 2014
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        @sapinker I do find it frustrating that you resort to evil-labelling rather than science in your writing.

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      1. Paul O'Neil‏ @onepau 25 Oct 2014
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        @sapinker Couldn't have said it better! That tweet is now on my @RebelMouse pic.twitter.com/5Uu0VHoChw http://rbl.ms/1wy3OY2 

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      1. paul kramarchyk‏ @paul_kramarchyk 25 Oct 2014
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        @sapinker Gray overstates the obvious and takes far too long to do it.

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      2. Eoin Norris‏ @enorris 25 Oct 2014
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        @sapinker he's not really taking about those states ( and NZ was founded on genocide). He's talking about the worse demons of our nature

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      3. Mauberley‏ @mauberley80 25 Oct 2014
        Replying to @enorris

        @enorris @sapinker Yes, but the article excuses Nazism or Wahabism by saying it's all really about human nature.

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      4. Eoin Norris‏ @enorris 25 Oct 2014
        Replying to @mauberley80

        @mauberley80 @sapinker I would say explains rather than excuses. He does put too little weight on bad ideas, religion amongst them.

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      2. Mauberley‏ @mauberley80 25 Oct 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker is making fun. The article is another apology for religion, attributing evil & violence to human nature instead of bad ideas.

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      3. Culture Warrior‏ @normalamerican1 25 Oct 2014
        Replying to @mauberley80

        @mauberley80 @sapinker But doesn't that beg the question of what leads to bad ideas being though of/accepted?

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      4. Mauberley‏ @mauberley80 25 Oct 2014
        Replying to @normalamerican1

        @normalamerican1 @sapinker No, you can agree there are bad parts of human nature w/out excusing Nazism & Wahabism as inevitable.

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