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 …
also, I hypothesis (but might be wrong) that you're pushing back against the "human nature includes powerlust and laziness at an immutable, probably biological level" because it's anthithetical to desirable political goals - but I'd point to @amendlocke 's "The True Knowledge" !
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But it's not antithetical to the goals of controlling, channeling, or mitigating it. People do steal, lie, and cheat, but it's a reasonable political goal to disincentivize all of that and socialize the young away from it.
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damn you, just when I thought I was out! ok, yes, I ENTIRELY AGREE that the goal of governance is to disincentivize anti-social behavior (which may involve socializing people in pro-social ways). that's true regardless of the genes / environment mix!
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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.