The way I see it that instinct is the cause behind so much suffering and injustice in the world.

  • @Risk
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    41 year ago

    That’s a bit of a reductive take on the parent comment.

    Human nature to cooperate and share is not mutually exclusive with forming in-groups and out-groups.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      Isn’t the internet wild?

      The product of literally 1000 generations worth of human cooperation, asking if humans will ever transcend tribalism on what is arguably humanity’s most collaborative innovation?

      • @Risk
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        11 year ago

        Depends how we define ‘overcome’ really. I mean, if cooperation is evidence of overcoming it then the question doesn’t need to be asked.

        If we’re talking about our biological instinct for tribalism, well that’s why we’re having the conversation isn’t it.

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        1 year ago

        Yes. Reductive in a crude way, not clarifying. I don’t think the parent comment at all implied humans are inherently bad and the occasional good doesn’t matter.

        Rather inversely, humans are tribalistic but achieve good in spite of tribalism.