The long branch is the long arm of altruism, the short branch is the short arm of altruism.
this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2023
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Back in the days only people with a strong will to survive did, infact, survive and the genes from those people are in all of us. Many like to pretend they don't posses these features but that's only because you're living a modern comfortable life, so you never need to rely on it. Especially compared to what it would've been 10k years ago.
You can take any modern man, and put him along with his family in a house and place an angry stranger pounding at the door shouting threats at his wife and kids and you'll soon discover the violence you just thought wasn't there.
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Power corrupts. Iโd say probably 95% of people who consider themselves altruistic, if you gave them significant power, would end up abusing it before too long.
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