My argument does sound disturbingly similar to countless evopsych *justifications* for shitty human behaviour. I'm condemning it, though.
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I'm not saying "this is why capitalism is natural," I'm saying "this is why capitalism was inevitable. Be depressed and scared."
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I'm not saying "monsanto is the glorious outcome of human nature," I'm saying "monsanto was inevitable once humans learned to kill each othe
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I'm not saying "we're merely expressing our natures," I'm saying "we're doomed to dystopia and have been since we discovered sharp rocks"
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I'm not saying "capitalism: the ultimate result of progress," I'm saying it's the ultimate form of bashing your enemy in the head with rocks
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This can sound a lot like those evopsych apologists of our terrible, awful species' terrible, awful behaviours.
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But I assuredly would feed those apologists to the objectively better species of bonobos any day of the week.
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Bonobos: what humans could have been if we'd chosen empathy over sharp pointy stuff.
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@arthur_affect probably not. Those who couldn't figure out how to weaponize empathy didn't have a choice about those preying on them1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@pookleblinky I guess Im a Calvinist in that I think whether you had a choice in being evil doesn't affect whether you deserve to go to Hell
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