sounds more like you're catastrophising. humans lived not unlike this for thousands of years, it wasn't until the bronze age that civilization as we know it came along.
many of those atrocities are common in civilization too, take the ongoing child abuse scandal in the catholic church, or indeed the practice of circumcision in other religious communites
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Indeed, but you're making the case that humanity used to be different. Different enough that people would be both self-sufficient, without hierarchies and still pacifistic, despite no state to enforce it.
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my previous point: "we do our tasks as they need doing. nobody orders anyone to do something, once they are aware that it needs doing they either do it or seek someone out with the experience to do so." is a concept called mutual aid, it's well-attested to
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I don't see how we, humans with the benefit of hindsight, couldn't recognise that we have unselfish tendencies as well as selfish ones, and put these towards productive ends
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Because active thinking isn't the standard for humanity and neither is great morality. If everybody were like you, maybe it would work, but for that you'd have to kill off the vast majority of humanity.
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how convenient, with the climate warming up, the vast majority of humanity may be in for a very wet, very hot shock within my lifetime.
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Scientists speak of climate change instead of warming nowadays for a reason, not every place just gets higher. In fact, the hinterlands of China which are currently basically a barren wasteland will get a lot more rain due to climate change eventually.
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mmm, but on top of climate change, with the oil supplies drying up and getting harder to find, it may be difficult for us to survive. I know that unless things change very very quickly (which they won't) the place I live will be underwater before my 40th birthday.
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We constantly find new oil and recently a German firm has found a new way to recycle plastic back into oil (only certain plastics for now). Most of the panic there is to drive the price up for now. Climate change isn't quite that bad either, where do you live?
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