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There is plenty of human or mammalian behaviour that we don't view as axiomatic virtues in the way you do, and take steps to curb or change them. This is one w
by ionised 8y ago
There is plenty of human or mammalian behaviour that we don't view as axiomatic virtues in the way you do, and take steps to curb or change them.
This is one we can and should change.
- lwhalen 8y agoCitation needed. We are monkeys with drugs and guns. Any attempt to deny that basic premise is doomed to failure.
- ionised 8y agoWe deny that basic premise every day by building and maintaining a civilisation.
- lwhalen 8y agoGroundhogs, dolphins, whales, monkeys (other 'great primates'), etc, all have a regular social order with shared/close living quarters. Just because they don't have specious (pun intended) arguments with strangers over an electronic communications network doesn't mean they aren't some value of 'civilized'.