Classic "humans seem to do these bad things a lot, so it must mean they're in our nature" type of argument. Which is understandable, but misses the mark. It ignores all the myriad ways humans invent to mitigate or avoid doing those bad things. What's in our nature is problem solving, not villainy.

Very cool revelation (pun)! For many LDS I speak with, polygamy hasn't been "revoked" so much as "postponed," sort of like a strong Law of Consecration. While for others polygamy is just a "next life" thing, if not something that's been fully rejected. How do you read the Taylor/Woodruff disparity?

Congrats Hilary!

But I'm trying to get a job in Canadian academia haha... What might be good for universities might not be good for Canadians, after all. An influx of American thinking into our institutions might only contribute to us becoming more like them - which we clearly don't want.