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The way I see it that instinct is the cause behind so much suffering and injustice in the world.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes and no.

The reason why we form societies this to look after one another, make life easier and safer for us, and find mates.

We have successfully gone from the days where not having kids was a literal death sentence in old age, where a small scratch could easily get infected and kill you, and where starving to death was a frequent occurrence (interestingly enough, your body has all sorts of anti-kill-yourself measures built into your BIOS, such as exercise optimization curves so you don't burn up all your calories exercising (hunting), and starving yourself causes your body to do its damndest to keep as much fat as possible to keep you alive through famines, but I digress).

In some ways, we are at the highest peak of not being tribalistic. But people also invent new ways to create us vs them situations, such as worshiping a gourd vs beating up the shoe worshipers for being blasphemous. You see this often and it's the dumbest shit in the world, lol. Though that particular one skewers it well, haha.

Eventually, I think stuff like race and sexuality will be behind us largely, and it will be the latest minor thing.

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