# On "being born broken"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-being-born-broken/847035>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 27, 2020, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-being-born-broken/847035 "2020-01-27T04:28:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Machinaforce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@Machinaforce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machinaforce)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-being-born-broken/847035/1 "2020-01-27T04:28:38Z")

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I know a made a thread before about the Morris Berman book but it got taken down because that quote I used wasn’t fair use. I didn’t really know that but apparently it is so, so I apologize.

But the subject has given me much grief though. Thinking about how much of what I considered to be normal and natural for humans might not actually be so in the end. I didn’t want to read the book because in all likelihood I wouldn’t understand if it is right or not, but would just likely accept it as so because I don’t know how it’s wrong. I want to move on from it but I just can’t shake that he is right.

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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-being-born-broken/847035/2 "2020-01-27T04:31:52Z")

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Whats the alternative though? Live in violent hunter gatherer tribes where half your kids die and life is precarious and full of pain and disease?

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-being-born-broken/847035/3 "2020-01-27T09:49:25Z")

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I don’t think that you get a do-over on a closed thread, dude.

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-being-born-broken/847035/4 "2020-01-27T10:08:03Z")

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**On "being born broken"**

Well, some of us are…

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-being-born-broken/847035/5 "2020-01-27T18:14:49Z")

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