Another factor contributing to the tendency to deny the assumption of a fixed human nature was that the concept has so often been abused as a shield behind which the most inhuman acts are committed.
Statues and formulas, these mechanical tools of a serviceable use, or rather misuse, of his natural faculties, are the ankle-chains of a continuous immaturity.
The problem is only being made worse by bed bugs' increasing resistance to commonly available pesticides, the CDC said, which may further drive people's misuse of toxic chemicals.