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I'd like to say that there may be some human cultures that are / were generally respectful to their environment and the animals therein, but it's hard to say ho
by BLKNSLVR 7mo ago
I'd like to say that there may be some human cultures that are / were generally respectful to their environment and the animals therein, but it's hard to say how much that was an 'enforced' position based on their level of technological evolution.
I think it's a fundamental rule that the 'rape and pillage' types will always overrun the non-'rape and pillage' types. Much in the same way the sociopaths are able to climb the corporate ladder with relative ease. The nature of nature, seemingly.
- andai 7mo agoAs a kid I remember wondering why all the countries that exist seem to be jerks. Why aren't there any nice countries? Then I thought about it for another 5 seconds and it made a lot more sense.
- Pay08 7mo agoI'd very much hesitate characterising countries as a whole.
- andai 7mo agoNo I mean if you set up a simulation where there's a bunch of entities who are chill and a bunch of entities who are not chill, and then you run the simulation... Wait a minute, that rings a bell! https://ncase.me/trust/ https://ncase.me/trust/
- Pay08 7mo agoBy that logic, every single human should be a psychopath by now.
- BLKNSLVR 7mo agoI think that's far from true, going by the simulation game thingy.
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- BLKNSLVR 7mo agoThat game / simulation is fantastic. Thanks for sharing, I'm gonna pass it on at work. More than fantastic, it's beautiful.
- BobaFloutist 7mo agoCooperation usually beats out competition though. Which is why for all that things look bad right now, alliances of at least modestly liberal countries have handily dominated and out-competed most autocracies. And the autocracies that have thrived have mostly done so by liberalizing, at least a little.
- maccard 7mo agoMachiavelli nailed this 500 years ago in the prince. If one person always plays by the rules, they will lose to the group who ignore the rules,
- 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 7mo agoEcuador has Rights of Nature articles incorporated into their 2008 Constitution [1] effecting national decision making in investment and development. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_nature_in_Ecuador https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_nature_in_Ecuador
- rob74 7mo agoYes - the current conservative president organized a referendum which would have allowed him to change it, but it got rejected: https://constitutionnet.org/news/voices/peoples-verdict-why-did-ecuadors-constitutional-referendum-fail https://constitutionnet.org/news/voices/peoples-verdict-why-... > in the months leading up to the referendum, the government and several pro-government public figures and political commentators openly criticized the 2008 Constitution, particularly its recognition of Nature as a subject of rights, emphasizing that no other constitution in the world contains such a provision.