Chimpanzees tribes, given enough resources, can pass from an equilibrium based on violence to an equilibrium based on niceness and sharing. I cannot seem to find, despite extensive search, the relevant experiment, but I remember it vividly.
It visibly does. If you’re not sitting in a war zone, just look around you. Are the people around you engaged in brutally murdering each other?
This is not to say that the better parts of the world are perfect, but to look at those parts and moan about our brutally murderous monkey nature is self-indulgent posturing.
Chimpanzees tribes, given enough resources, can pass from an equilibrium based on violence to an equilibrium based on niceness and sharing.
I cannot seem to find, despite extensive search, the relevant experiment, but I remember it vividly.
I guess the same thing can happen to humans too.
It visibly does. If you’re not sitting in a war zone, just look around you. Are the people around you engaged in brutally murdering each other?
This is not to say that the better parts of the world are perfect, but to look at those parts and moan about our brutally murderous monkey nature is self-indulgent posturing.
See “Can the Chain Still Hold You?”.