Is mankind forever advancing toward a better state of being?

Or is human nature unchanging, and only the circumstances of our lives change?

Are the two joined? And if so, to what extent?



This is an old debate that I would like us pick up, or pick at! The recent death of anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss (pronouced Levee Strohss. He was French and NOT related to making jeans!) has started me thinking along those lines again.

So I would like your opinions about this whole matter.




OPEN DEBATE!