Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle?

• Aequitas@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There is no such instinct.

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  • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If you’re going to argue, please don’t make people look up basic stuff, it’s a waste of everyone’s time.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_hierarchy

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    • Aequitas@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What does the social behavior of mandrills have to do with that of humans? There is a reason why zoology and sociology are two very different fields of study. If I want to know something about humans, I have to look at humans and not draw conclusions about humans from non-humans. People who equate the two are, at best, essentialist in their reasoning and, at worst, social darwinists. In any case, it contradicts empirical evidence, which speaks much more in favor of contingency as a fundamental social principle. If I want to derive a biological statement from this, then at best it is that humans seem to be adaptable.

      I stand by it: most people neither want to be dominated nor dominate others. Such things are a result of circumstances such as the scarcity of resources or the ideologies that are hegemonic in a society. As evidence, I refer to the countless human communities that have no hierarchy whatsoever and would not function with one.

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      • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I can only agree with your last statement, encause IMO, people have three natural postures regarding hierarchy in their group:

        • To compete for leadership/status.
        • To follow the leader.
        • Apathy.

        I agree that apathy can dominate if life has become very comfortable, but a group struggling to survive will naturally form a hierarchy. Practically all human groups throughout history have formed some kind of hierarchy, no need to analyze mandrills.

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