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You've got cause and effect backwards. Societies have to overreact to pandemics, because those that didn't got wiped out - eventually. Enforcement of quaranti
by scatters 4y ago
You've got cause and effect backwards. Societies have to overreact to pandemics, because those that didn't got wiped out - eventually. Enforcement of quarantine and similar measures through extreme social norms is a necessary adaptation to the threat of plague; civilization wouldn't be able to exist without it.
- throwawaylinux 4y agoNo I don't think I do have it backward.
- scatters 4y agoWhat was the point of writing that?
- throwawaylinux 4y agoIt was commensurate with your reply. What exactly is the cause and what is the effect that you think I have backwards?
- scatters 4y agoYou think that the authorities are creating an internal enemy to sow division. I am saying that the visceral reaction to plague is an instinctive human universal, not something that has to be cultivated.
- throwawaylinux 4y ago> You think that the authorities are creating an internal enemy to sow division. They do and have done so many times throughout history. > I am saying that the visceral reaction to plague is an instinctive human universal, not something that has to be cultivated. Fear is an instinctive response to many things, and that can be and is manipulated.