Comment Re:Furniture (Score 1) 312
Sometimes I feel like posts get up-modded for no reason, other than the post being from a low-ID account.
Biology influences culture. DNA makes our brains, with well-proven gender differences, and our brains lead to our culture. Our culture is created directly by our brains, and also by the interaction with other people (brains).
By that logic, new financial instruments are influenced by Biology as well. As you said, our DNA makes our brains and our brains make financial instruments. Therefore, financial instruments are biologically influenced.
Yeah, you can say that, I guess. It's technically "correct." However, it makes implications about Biology being a much larger influence than it actually is.
Humans around the globe are genetically extremely similar, regardless of ethnicity or race. If culture is so Biology-dependent, then why have different cultures over the past 10,000 years organized themselves and functioned in such a wide variety of different fashions? Patriarchy to matriarchy, migratory to stationary, polygamous to monogamous, vegetarian to omnivorous.
Culture is influenced by Biology, you're right, but Biology is more of a starting point, not a road map. Culture is mostly effected by geography, economics, technological advancement, social development, and chance events.
If society doesn't want to change who are you to tell it it should? Society is people , not mindless robots.
You're suggesting that people shouldn't state their opinion.
If everyone thought that their opinion should be kept to themselves because they are just one person and not the mass, nothing would ever change. Someone has to stand up and say, "I think this is wrong," or people would continue to think that they are alone in what they believe. Protesting has the goal of changing opinions and mobilizing bodies -- and it does both of these.
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.