1/ Let's define civilization as as an aspirational state where there is no need to intentionally cause pain to others to get what you want
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3/ In answering this q we tend to replace moral absolutes of good/evil with shades of grey, to acknowledge complexity of trying to be good
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4/ Ie we assume that most people *try* to be good in our sense, but complexity and moral ambiguities of world defeats them. Is this true?
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see Boehm we breed ourselves to be better cooperators ("self-domestication" or artificial social selection)http://bit.ly/1QUG5Nw
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