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There is evidence that hunter gatherers would take care of extremely disabled people. What do you mean by "didn't fit into the role assigned by their tribe"? Wh
by danharaj 7y ago
There is evidence that hunter gatherers would take care of extremely disabled people. What do you mean by "didn't fit into the role assigned by their tribe"? What are some references on the body of knowledge you are confidently referring to?
- cortesoft 7y agoJust meaning that if you didn't conform to the tribe's rules, you would be exiled... and exile meant death. Being part of the community mattered way more in tribal society than modern society. That also means the tribe was close knit, and would take care of sick and disabled members... as long as you followed the rules.
- natmaka 7y agoIn a tribal zone exile doesn't everywhere nor always imply death. We nearly cannot escape from our societies. Is it better to be able to escape or not? For the ones really loving liberty the choice seems pretty clear. In every human society one has to apparently submit to some rules. It is somewhat difficult for me to believe that I enjoy more freedom 'Lynx' (the woman subject of the article).
- icebraining 7y agoCan't we escape? What is preventing you from doing what Lynx did, right now?
- lonelappde 7y agoI'd have to turn off Reddit and go outside. More seriously, I'd need start a competing tourism business to pay my bills.
- blaser-waffle 7y agoRight now we'd have to be allowed outside
- natmaka 7y agoPlease read "2008guy" comment. In a word: you may be fined, prosecuted...
- icebraining 7y agoWhy wasn't Lynx?
- natmaka 7y agoLynx was annoyed in this way. An excerpt from the article follows: "Never mind the struggle to meet Maslow’s tenets of survival: being wild verges on illegal. There are limits to how long you can spend on public land. Fires are frequently prohibited, and hunting is closely circumscribed. Lynx came up against the law in 2008, when a government officer attended one of her classes undercover. She was unaware of his identity until two years later, when she was charged for running a course on public land without a permit and for cutting down a freestanding dead tree. She was barred from the national forests of eastern Washington for a year."
- natmaka 7y agoAn excerpt from the article follows: "Never mind the struggle to meet Maslow’s tenets of survival: being wild verges on illegal. There are limits to how long you can spend on public land. Fires are frequently prohibited, and hunting is closely circumscribed. Lynx came up against the law in 2008, when a government officer attended one of her classes undercover. She was unaware of his identity until two years later, when she was charged for running a course on public land without a permit and for cutting down a freestanding dead tree. She was barred from the national forests of eastern Washington for a year."
- stolen_biscuit 7y agoWhat do you base this off? Do you have any research papers on ancient tribal dynamics or reputable articles where I can read more on this?
- econcon 7y agoI guess I read somewhere Scandinavians used to leave the weak/disabled kids out in wild and if they can survive on their own, they were accepted in the tribe if not then it helped eliminate weakness.
- lonelappde 7y agoThat was in the (fiction) movie 300
- econcon 7y agoI read it on Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_eugenics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_eugenics It seems they were not Scandinavian but romans