The usual invocation of "human nature" is that people are X based on our chromosomes, that one can look at human behaviors and say "it must be in the DNA." This is, I suppose, what one can read in Steven Pinker books, though from limited exposure I know that I can't stand Steven Pinker so I don't really know for sure.
Greetings fellow swampers and those preferring to remain dry:
It is very satisfying to point out the inequities in life, to rail against the obnoxious ones among us, yet in doing so we become the obnoxious ones. We become the person cutting into line at the grocery, or cutting off another driver trying to get out of the parking lot, just to secure our 'proper' place in line, but in reality just sowing more inequity behind us. Such counter-productive behavior is almost human nature; I myself can be obnoxious and casually, even unconsciously and inadvertently, spew inequities and insults toward others who will then cut me off as I try to exit the grocery parking lot later on today.
