Regarding conflict between groups, external version is "It's ok to punish someone of the other group for what another person of that group has done." Internalized version is "If someone says something bad about a person in the same group as me, it's as if they said it about me."
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This reminds me a bit of the book Warless Societies and the Origin of War by Raymond C. Kelly. War becomes possible when killing one person starts to be seen as an acceptable substitute for killing another. Then you get blood feuds. Modern wars are different, but share premise.
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Pretty narrow definition of a tribe that overemphasizes the necessary narrative element at the expense of leaving out the very real positive goods like belonging, protection, opportunity generation and multiplication and harvesting, cooperation, etc
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That’s the hypothesis of “Moses and Monotheism”, one of Freud’s weirder late works: Judaism as post hoc compensation for Moses’ murder.
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I have often wondered if our veneration of food preparation is just huge diversion from the troublesome idea of killing animals for food.
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That’s probably why we evolved to kill any messenger who reminds us of that burden.
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Correction. Anyone who tells us the contents of the burden is shame. “Wait, Confederate monuments are something to be ashamed of?”
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