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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 months agoIt goes to show that humans are actually good to each other on an individual level or in small groups.
It’s when we place ourselves in massive groups and communities of thousands or millions or billions of people that we start to act terribly to other humans.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
“tribalism” being the word we use to label when a civilization engages in pointless violence when it’s tribes that avoid this bullshit naturally by excluding the waste of time members of society who try to break society is so frustrating to me
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
In all fairness, tribes did occasionally fight.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
sure. but tribes didn’t often engage in systematic eliminations. genocide is something civilizations do
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
You mean like the civilization of Homo Sapien Sapiens that genocided the Neanderthals?
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Probably depends on the definition of “tribe”, but yeah, I agree in principle.