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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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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5/ Alternate theory: being good is not as hard as we make it out to be, the grey areas aren't that grey.
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recently rewatched campbell/moyers 1988: "everything you do is going to be evil to somebody"
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been playing with a metaphor of "ruminant, omnivore, obligate carnivore" crossed with a notion I'm calling "perception of scarcity"
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