Like I said, you are parasitically running down the "innate sense of social fairness" that society has spent 10,000 years building. You want to believe it's in

Like I said, you are parasitically running down the "innate sense of social fairness" that society has spent 10,000 years building. You want to believe it's innate, because it absolves you of the work of actually building a system to enforce virtue. That's laziness, it doesn't make it true. People do not want to rely on their "innate" sense of social fairness while watching the people around them be rewarded for violating those norms. People hold those feelings because they see the people around them do the same. When that's not true, they feel like suckers, and if you push them, you will find out how not-innate that sense is. --- Edit: And yes, for most of human history, "traveling in the woods in unfamiliar territory" was asking for a brutal death. Read some Jared Diamond or something on his work in New Guinea. We have actively socialized ourselves, through hard work over centuries, to make this relatively safe.