Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man. (Konrad Lorenz)

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.

Konrad Lorenz

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