This has been my answer in the past, as to why i do not support doing away with the state. So i do not disagree with you.
What i'm wondering is why. I'd like to see people's thoughts on why some people will cheat and take advantage, why some will use violence and coersion.
Is this part of the natural order? Is it typical animal or mammal or primate behavior? I've called this behavior cannibalistic in the past, though it's debatable how accurate that is.
Perhaps it has more to do with our capacity for intelligence. Maybe some people naturally favor slight short-term benefits even at the cost of long-term deficit?
Or maybe we have a natural propensity for cooperation and compassion, but some people are just fundamentally miswired. Maybe there's something to the "monkeysphere" idea.
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Date: 2006-11-01 02:51 pm (UTC)What i'm wondering is why. I'd like to see people's thoughts on why some people will cheat and take advantage, why some will use violence and coersion.
Is this part of the natural order? Is it typical animal or mammal or primate behavior? I've called this behavior cannibalistic in the past, though it's debatable how accurate that is.
Perhaps it has more to do with our capacity for intelligence. Maybe some people naturally favor slight short-term benefits even at the cost of long-term deficit?
Or maybe we have a natural propensity for cooperation and compassion, but some people are just fundamentally miswired. Maybe there's something to the "monkeysphere" idea.
I've speculated in the past that maybe PTSD is what makes oppression possible. Perhaps the malfunction comes about because so many of us have been traumatized?
Maybe it is some combination of the above. Or none of them entirely.