ā¦ bang bus murder ape
Adding that into my book of wonderful phrases.
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Gullible@sh.itjust.works āØ12ā© āØhoursā© agoI think you might have some ontologically incongruous standards. We are crazy apes. You can take the guns away, but the murder will persist for millennia, if not gene edited out. Banning the guns and lead bullets is more likely to work than expecting humanity to spontaneously diverge from its evolutionary roots of the bang bus murder ape
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world āØ12ā© āØhoursā© ago
Gullible@sh.itjust.works āØ11ā© āØhoursā© ago
Just donāt credit me, Iām pretty sure I plagiarized it in part from elsewhere
Solumbran@lemmy.world āØ12ā© āØhoursā© ago
I donāt know, humans are good at diverging from their instincts when it comes to letting sick people die, but when it comes to killing less, they cannot anymore?
I think that low-ass standards are what prevent humans from getting any better, if you start justifying mindless murders as ājust instinctā then of course people will be fine with it. And funnily enough, thatās one of the main arguments that hunters use, saying that theyāre just doing something ānaturalā.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works āØ11ā© āØhoursā© ago
We are killing less. And overwhelmingly so. If you donāt count faceless, recontectualized packaged cow, chicken, and pig meat. Weāre also still pretty good about keeping our close group alive, but medicine men, insurance, and numbers over 100 are a strictly cultural practice not cemented within our genetic memory in any meaningful way, so society as a whole suffers under the burden of our limited empathy.
You can also get into the economics of governance to get a good look at what it would mean to move the systems in place enough to reach the sort of universal socioeconomic safety that youād personally find acceptable. Iām a fan of Europeās dealā¦ up to a point.
I really donāt mean to cut things off, but the scope of this conversation would necessarily reach so incredibly wide that I donāt believe I can keep your attention or mine for a dozen pages of philosophy, biology, anthropology, history, psychology, and economics. In short, I, personally, can only expect people to fit neatly into a groove so long as it isnāt too far removed from the one we dug a hundred thousand years ago.