Post #1856322

2026-05-01 18:44 UTC

Yeah… people forget that ancient humans survived through cooperation long before states existed and the fights they did have were mostly just over territory and resources. Not some deep evil ‘‘human nature’’

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@Signtist@bookwyr.me 2026-05-01 19:01

To be fair, getting people to coordinate gets exponentially harder the more people you have. We evolved to work in relatively small groups, not millions or billions.

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@djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-01 20:00

I would make the argument that our species resorting to violent conflict over shareable resources is a pretty damning indictment of human nature. Tribalism exists, it’s a scientific fact. You can overcome the biases it imposes through cognitive effort, but at a baseline we are predisposed to hate anyone who we believe “doesn’t belong.” That’s not inherently evil, but it is asshole behavior.

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@Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 2026-05-01 20:46

Cooperation against other humans (and Neanderthals and such)

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@merc@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-02 04:08

There was cooperation, sure. There was also a lot of killing. It’s not just human nature, even chimps kill chimps from other groups who stray into the wrong territory.

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