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Maybe this is just because we culturally overvalue the individual. Maybe technology helps us survive and have 'more' on a macro level but causes problems on a m

Maybe this is just because we culturally overvalue the individual. Maybe technology helps us survive and have 'more' on a macro level but causes problems on a micro level, and maybe we are more geared 'naturally' than we believe to sacrifice our micro for a good human macro. I think about ants that sacrifice themselves for the good of the colony, surely without the same reasoning we would do something similar for[1]. [1]: https://www.science.org/content/article/exploding-ants-sacrifice-themselves-save-their-colony https://www.science.org/content/article/exploding-ants-sacri...

ses1984 2y ago
Evolutionary biology and game theory can offer insight here. Ants are genetically identical which drives this behavior.
- pwillia7 2y ago
  Interesting! I didn't know that
  - ses1984 2y ago
    Actually I remembered that wrong, ants aren’t identical, in fact they may be less related than siblings because the queen could have mated with more than one male. Sorry! There is an evolutionary biology and game theory perspective on this but it’s more complex than the case of genetic clones.
leobg 2y ago
Leo Tolstoy, What I Believe: Just like the winegrowers, who, living in a garden not cultivated by them, had to understand and feel that they were in immeasurable debt to the landlord, people must also understand and feel that from the day of their birth until their death, they are always in immeasurable debt to someone: to those who lived before them, to their contemporaries, and to those yet to come; to that which was, is, and will be the beginning of everything. They must understand that with every hour of their life, as they accept life, they reinforce this obligation that binds them to life and its origin, and that therefore, the person who denies this obligation and lives for themselves, in trying to preserve their personal life, ultimately destroys it. This is precisely what Christ repeated many times. The true life is only that which continues the past life and contributes to the salvation of the present and future life.

ses1984 2y ago

Evolutionary biology and game theory can offer insight here. Ants are genetically identical which drives this behavior.

pwillia7 2y ago
Interesting! I didn't know that
- ses1984 2y ago
  Actually I remembered that wrong, ants aren’t identical, in fact they may be less related than siblings because the queen could have mated with more than one male. Sorry! There is an evolutionary biology and game theory perspective on this but it’s more complex than the case of genetic clones.

leobg 2y ago

Leo Tolstoy, What I Believe: Just like the winegrowers, who, living in a garden not cultivated by them, had to understand and feel that they were in immeasurable debt to the landlord, people must also understand and feel that from the day of their birth until their death, they are always in immeasurable debt to someone: to those who lived before them, to their contemporaries, and to those yet to come; to that which was, is, and will be the beginning of everything. They must understand that with every hour of their life, as they accept life, they reinforce this obligation that binds them to life and its origin, and that therefore, the person who denies this obligation and lives for themselves, in trying to preserve their personal life, ultimately destroys it. This is precisely what Christ repeated many times. The true life is only that which continues the past life and contributes to the salvation of the present and future life.