• Fushuan [he/him]
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    81 year ago

    Lol what, every living being that lives in their community/societies contributes in a way to it and fullfills a function, or the community will abandon them.

    • terwn43lp
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      71 year ago

      we’re the only species that works 40 hour weeks

      • @sock
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        1 year ago

        and have manufactured scarcity

        (other animals may do that i just wanted to be trendy too)

      • Fushuan [he/him]
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        21 year ago

        Yeah, some species spend their whole week contributing to the community and waaay less contributing to themselves.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      you don’t even have the option not to, there is no territory for you, you are obliged to enter a social contract

      you could try to get away with it, but you’ll likely be discovered eventually unless you keep low and lie well. you won’t be permitted to just build a cabin with your mates, they’ll come and tear it down if they see smoke from it, or spot it on satellite

      • schmorp
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        51 year ago

        This is the same situation for many young animals - they can live by the rule of their parent group or find new territory, which isn’t always available. We don’t solve this by return to monke.

        • @[email protected]OPM
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          21 year ago

          I dunno, i think the complexity of our civilization is more demanding than cooperation with a parent group or a tribe. And now there pretty much is never new territory for human misfits.

    • @randomperson
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      1 year ago

      Really. I don’t know how exactly looks day to day life in other countries but my country feels extremely safe compared to what I sometimes read about the US or Western Europe (not to mention countries like Brazil or Mexico or some African countries). To be honest people here in Poland don’t even think about such things as being killed or just even mugged randomly because chances it would happen are lower than winning at EuroJackpot.

      • Nerd02
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        11 year ago

        Western Europe reporting in, I don’t really ever get afraid of being killed, it’s hardly a thing. I think it might either be a US only thing (because you know… guns) or just you and me getting a distorted view of what the sentiment actually is across the pond because we’re only seeing it through the Internet.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          As a gay men living in western Europe, I do feel unsafe. Probably not as much as I would feel if I was living in other parts of the world, but still.

          To be fair I feel unsafe around eastern groups of people, no surprise there.

          • @randomperson
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            01 year ago

            You have “GAY” tattoo on your forehead or what?

      • @[email protected]OPM
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        Speaking for the US, there is selection bias for violence in the news. Most people have no need to fear violence in their daily lives. There is sometimes aggression, especially from cops and others with delusions of authority. But it’s rare that it escalates to outright physical violence.

        That said, and speaking to the meme, if you don’t pay to live violence will be swift and unambiguous.