Christopher Hitchens actually makes the opposite point when people claim humans need God's law to keep them in line: human civilization was around for thousands of years before the Ten Commandments were ever written down, do you really think it somehow survived all that time with everyone wildly killing, fucking, and robbing each other, and never thinking better of it until some Authority handed down a pithy set of rules?

We humans -- those of us without significant developmental disorders, at least -- do have an innate sense of correct behavior that doesn't have to be told to us. Cooperative behavior to some degree is hardwired into us by selective breeding, the same way that many breeds of dog are hardwired to be loyal and protective of humans. In our wild past, humans survived better in groups than alone. People who couldn't play nice in groups passed on fewer of their genes than those that could, and it's only very recently, all things considered, that we moved out of that environment. Not nearly long enough for behavioral evolution to have taken us noticeably in any other direction (American Conservatives to the contrary).

Over a period of about 150,000 years, without having any idea we were doing it, we basically domesticated ourselves.

Thanks for this one, I tried to watch this movie on the plane (I watch a lot of movies on long haul flights) and fell asleep.

From a casting perspective, I'm wondering if anyone here has watched Friday Night Lights?  Because Adrienne Palicki, who plays the pregnant whore in Legion, was awesome in that - and she played a lot of scenes opposite Taylor Kitsch and he was actually great in that too.

And the slack-jawed guy in Legion is Lucas Black, who started out as a kid actor in Sling Blade, and the TV series American Gothic, which was kind of an awesome show, and also starred Gary Cole and Sarah Paulson. (Which meant I was probably one of the few people who recognised her when she showed up in Serenity.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP64eG10ZN8  And that accent is real, he's from Alabama.