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I don't think anyone is claiming that it's "the whole explanation". It's only an explanation for why people don't care about other people, which sometimes has v

by asdflkj 19y ago

I don't think anyone is claiming that it's "the whole explanation". It's only an explanation for why people don't care about other people, which sometimes has violence and suffering as a side effect. In other cases, violence and suffering is purposeful, and this happens for other reasons.

leoc 19y ago
> What do monkeys have to do with war, oppression, crime, racism and even e-mail spam? You'll see that all of the random ass-headed cruelty of the world will suddenly make perfect sense once we go Inside the Monkeysphere. There's plenty of cruelty between acquaintances in the world, and a great deal of it is random and ass-headed. Lots of that cruelty falls under the headings of oppression, crime, and racism too. (War and spam are between strangers almost by definition.)