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> community where people actually care about each other Sounds like a community of absolute arrogance and security theater disconnected from the realities of n

• rekabis 4y ago
  >Sounds like a community of absolute arrogance and security theater disconnected from the realities of natural life. Sounds like a lot of communities around the world, like Japan, where people proactively mask up with even the slightest tickle in the throat in order to avoid passing whatever they’ve caught onto anyone else. Community-first attitudes are a hallmark of societal stability over the long term, as people think of the community first, and themselves second. Everyone benefits because the community is put ahead of selfishness and solipsism. Pathologically individualistic “me, me, me” attitudes lead to a very superficial community that cannot effectively meet threats to its health and survival. Everyone reaches for “why should I make the sacrifice when I don’t immediately benefit?”, which means no-one will make the sacrifice move. I find it very ironic that the military holds so many of the second group, when its ethos teaches the first. In a military unit, your first instinct is to jump on top of that grenade so that you protect your teammates at the cost of your own life. You put the team first, so that the team can survive with or without you. This only works if every single member of the team conforms to that same ideal. Yet the amount of antivax in the military - which is no different than refusing to protect your teammates because jumping on top of that grenade would hurt your own “personal freedoms” - is surprisingly prevalent.
  • Dracophoenix 4y ago
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