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Margaret Mead

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

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Margaret Mead is saying that people have the ability to act in harmful or violent ways as well as to create and maintain order. This means that human behavior can go in very different directions depending on circumstances and choices.

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