Popularly, one refers cynically to "human nature" in accepting the inevitability of such undesirable human behavior as greed, murder, cheating and lying.
So he pushed it to find a buyer. Biogen Idec's bosses resisted at first, but in the face of lawsuits, boardroom manoeuvring and acrimonious attacks they relented-or so it seemed.
Hensley's barbs - fired at Jack, at CTU, even at Ryan Chappelle - seemed to be timed to divert attention from the psychological defenses Frank Hensley had erected to keep the world at bay.
Given the current Gulf of Mexico oil-spill disaster it's easy to become cynical and imagine the fragile terrestrial worlds of the solar systems being ravaged for greed and profit.