" The anxiety about human nature can be boiled down to four fears:
• If people are innately different, oppression and discrimination would be justified.
• If people are innately immoral, hopes to improve the human condition would be futile.
• If people are products of biology, free will would be a myth and we could no longer hold people responsible for their actions.
• If people are products of biology, life would have no higher meaning and purpose. "

― Steven Pinker , The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature