100% agree people are as moral as technology makes it easy to be People have slavery without qualms for tens of thousands of years and then "somehow" had a moral epiphany ... right around the time steam engines became useful. Curious coincidence !https://twitter.com/EdLatimore/status/1198966424032743425 …
> Trying to figure out location is a mug's game. Plausibly so, but I think we see the same thing in uncultured animals, tho, right? Lions prefer to relax in shade unless they're hungry. Laziness. Rams to drive out competitors. Power. So Okham's razor...
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But both play cooperatively as lambs/cubs. So is the message in their genes and out of their reach/control ("ram nature") or in their socialization ("lion tradition")? That's where I say it's undisentanglable, especially for the complex mess that is a human being.
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will ponder this
> Is laziness a psychological need
I'd argue that it's the result of evolution in a resource-constrained universe. Lazy entities survive and maybe reproduce ; Un-lazy entities fritter away calories and starve.