Monogamy, virtue, lower levels of violence, and many other things are "incompatible" with human nature in the same sense that a republic or a liberal democracy is. This does nothing to recommend their falsehood to me.
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It's a basic analogy because unlike, say, monogamy, democracy as a system exacerbates the tribalism that ultimately destroys it. It's not a stable system
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*bad analogy
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First, what you can at most conclude is "can exacerbate". Second, one can make a parallel argument about many large-scale social institutions, like (say) the market economy, if you isolate your analysis.
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If what you mean is "exacerbates tribalism without some social checks", then yes, obviously this is true. But the same thing is true of the market. If not regulated by civil society and moral sentiment, self-interest runs amok and undermines free exchange.
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