GirlChat #592363
I don't know about "original sin," in the Xtian sense.
But uncorrupted is NOT the same as ( to use an overused term ) "virtuous." Corruption implies taking someone or something to a worse state than you found it in. It says nothing about the state you found it in, only about the worsening of its condition through intervention. Family anecdote. As a baby, my brother used to be covered in tiny bite marks. ( In todays more "elightened" times, we would've been raised as wards of the State and my parents would be doing life sentences. ) It transpired thusly. Derek would crawl across the crib and ( not content with his own stuffed toy ) would try to take little Dante's toy too. Little Dante would put up no resistance. ( Gee, I suppose those allegations about Pedo wimpyness ARE true. ;p ) Eventually little Dante would smolder, and crawl back to bite the other baby in revenge. Finally our mother realized that what we needed was a crib-toy for each tiny fist, no matter how acquisitive. ( Note: Derek grew up to be a Progressive and Dante to be an Anarcho-Capitalist. There may be a lesson here? ) Anywho, baby's are born kleptomaniacs. Teaching concepts like "theft" comes later. You might "corrupt" a born klepto. But being uncorrupted doesn't mean that babies don't steal, bite, or hit. A better term for "uncorrupted" might be "unadulterated." ;p Dante |