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I wonder if humans would behave better - or at least, be more reigned-in - if we could only interact with people we are physically close to.
by bovermyer 4y ago
I wonder if humans would behave better - or at least, be more reigned-in - if we could only interact with people we are physically close to.
- paxys 4y agoYou have thousands of years of human history to look back on to figure out whether that is true or not. I'm going to go ahead and say that the answer is a pretty clear "no".
- bovermyer 4y agoI'm not so sure about that. We have more information at our fingertips than ever before, and we can talk to people on the other side of the planet in real time. However, all it takes is a couple minutes of browsing social media or playing an online game to see that humanity has some pretty poor ideas of what constitutes acceptable social behavior. I don't think we've advanced socially all that much. I've read a fair number of history books (my degree is in history), and while our data on daily social behavior of the common person is woefully incomplete, I haven't seen much evidence that we're all that much more polite than our ancient Babylonian cousins.
- asdff 4y agoThat works well actually, until you get some other group that moves into the community, then they are blamed for all ills and targeted with violence that is only possible due to physical proximity.