Re: What is human nature?

Description: We all want the same thing, Rubinstein says: a happy, comfortable life.

Transcript:  Well, human nature in my view is very complex.  But I do think in the end most humans want roughly the same thing.  They want a good life for themselves.  They want to be happy.  They want a good life for their children and their grandchildren.  They want an appropriate amount of shelter.  They want to do something that makes their being on earth worthwhile.  In other words I think in the end, everybody wants to feel that they’ve done something on their . . . in their time on earth that was productive and that was useful.  So that everybody can say on their deathbed, “Yes, I did something productive.  I did justify my presence on the face of the earth.”

Recorded on: 9/13/07