(07-02-2021, 07:28 PM)Bucky Ball Wrote: Homo sapiens evolved to live in larger and larger social groups and structures.
That's the "natural" environment we find ourselves.
To do that we have legal structures, ethical systems and teach and learn values which promote the survival of both large and small groups.
Acting "naturalistically" does not imply or equate to acting only for a very small group.
No man is an island. Your assumptions might be flawed.
Dated as his work might be, Desmond Morris has some valuable thoughts on how humans have, over time, expanded their in-group to include people they don't know, and how that influences things like law and the social contract.
We still can be and far too often are very tribalistic, I believe we're moving in the right direction.
On hiatus.
