"Human Nature"

I think to a certain extent we are slaves to our nature.

Seems like we're almost talking about Evolutionary traits for survival. The instincts and behaviours that have allowed us to survive over the course of our evolution. I'm not sure you can call it 'human nature' since humans are only a short stop on the evolutionary ladder, and time wise we hardly account for any of our own Genetics. We share a lot of DNA with plants for example, perhaps we should stop calling 'shy people', 'shy', and chalk it up to being 'plant natured' instead...

I think the term should be "Societys' nature" because it should mean human instinct or something humans do without thinking but it more means what is acceptable as human behavior these days.IMO

"Do you ask why fishes swim? Why birds fly? Of course not dear boy, they do it because they were born to do it"

Its in our nature to question such things.. My answer is yes. We are slaves to our nature. But that doesnt gratify what most people say it does. You do not steal food from a starving person just because you were hungry and justify it by saying 'its in my nature'. There are better examples than that.

Bottom line is though we are, however it doesnt justify any problems that we have made ourselves. I mean it does, but the big things will change as our nature does.