Fascism and social media mobs are very different, but teach us the same thing: many, perhaps most people are not intrinsically compassionate, kind and just. When they are incentivized to behave well, they behave, and when they see a benefit in harming others, they harm.
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I do. As I said, we were born to collaborate (cooperate, in game theory) by default, and only compete when our needs are interfered with.
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Co-operative, collaborative, and altruistic within the tribe; competitive, combative and very, very violent against other tribes.
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Not by default. Only when things go badly.
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