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> No tribe emerged from the primordial aether with bureaucratized and abstracted concepts of legality and ethics which in any way resembled high civilizations.
by mmooss 2y ago
> No tribe emerged from the primordial aether with bureaucratized and abstracted concepts of legality and ethics which in any way resembled high civilizations.
Why do you say that? Ethics, laws, government, etc. are universal to human cultures, current and historical, and less and more developed (per leading research on cultural universals, e.g. Donald Brown).
- ImHereToVote 2y agoThey sure are. At the end of a machete usually. Non-violent order is an emergent higher order phenomena.
- ahartmetz 2y agoThe previously lawful kinds of non-state violence were (more or less) permanently outlawed in proto-Germany in 1495. It was called "Ewiger Landfriede", ~"Eternal land peace". I guess it's an interesting lead-up to modernity. Before looking it up, I expected something like 300 years ago or more like 1000 years.
- mmooss 2y ago> Non-violent order is an emergent higher order phenomena. Could you share a basis for that? What I've read from people who study these things - what is universal across cultures - say unequivicably that it's wrong. Perhaps it is our bias that only we 'advanced' people could do that.