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The wisdom of reciprocity also is older than all governments today. See Golden rule and Silver rule.

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• JasonFruit 4y ago
  There were governments when those rules were formulated. Unless you mean, "Older than all governments in existence today," which might be true.
  • IncRnd 4y ago
    Of course there was reciprocity between people prior to the first government. It almost certainly wasn't called the golden or silver rule, but of course it existed.
  • MichaelCollins 4y ago
    Reciprocity predates humanity by many millions of years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_altruism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_altruism