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Solumbran@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨hours⊠agoI donât 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 âjust instinctâ then of course people will be fine with it. And funnily enough, thatâs one of the main arguments that hunters use, saying that theyâre just doing something ânaturalâ.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works â¨9⊠â¨hours⊠ago
We are killing less. And overwhelmingly so. If you donât count faceless, recontectualized packaged cow, chicken, and pig meat. Weâre 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 youâd personally find acceptable. Iâm a fan of Europeâs deal⌠up to a point.
I really donât mean to cut things off, but the scope of this conversation would necessarily reach so incredibly wide that I donât 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 isnât too far removed from the one we dug a hundred thousand years ago.