Excerpts from a response to "human nature" arguments (source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZDCXpEsSZZ)

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Arguments based on human nature are nearly always awful.

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It's human nature to care about yourself, but it's also human nature to care about others.

Different norms develop around different aspects of our nature.

You can't then use human nature to explain why it's okay to violently enforce social norms related to property,

but an unworkable injustice to violently enforce social norms related to charity.

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While it might be human nature to consider the wood I chop mine, and the wood you chop yours,

it's probably not human nature to consider the wood as belonging to an entirely made-up legal entity

that neither planted the trees nor cut them down.

The fact of this weird arrangement, which goes against the self-interest of every woodsman,

does seem natural to a lot of people, points to the core of the problem with appeals to human nature.

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The human nature being appealed to is shaped by the system it's being used to defend.