[guy pointing at head] Feuding doesn’t seem nearly as desirable when the feuding clans are mutually exogamous and people have a basic moral objection to murdering their nephews and so on
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I haven’t read it recently enough to recall distinctly; thought I was channeling Sopolsky
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the Gita starts from the basic moral objection of feuding between inter-married groups (kin slaying seems transparently worse than slaying true "others"). That's not really what it's about but it does motivate the conflict that starts the dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna
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one of the surprising conclusions of the text, however, is that duty overrides the seemingly biologically encoded objection. a perverse modern misreading of it would be that it advocates social constructivism.
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Thank you for this adult phrasing of "chores n sh*t" ;-P
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