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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It definitely feels like Dunbar's Number is a gate to keep this from being effective in large communities.

If we can't view more than a finite amount of other humans as being "real," how do we begin to get massively large groups of humans to care for one another? This is a question I don't have the answer to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because you don’t have to view them as “real” to know that caring for others can make things better for you too.

I don’t think the issue is the being able to care, the issue is the arseholes turning groups against each other for their own gain.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"I only do the right thing because God will punish me if I don't" vibes lol.

Why can't you just operate from a principle of making things better for everyone?