• currycourier@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Theres some tendency towards tribalism that is probably a human thing though right? Wasn’t that the main social unit for humans through prehistory?

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      10 months ago

      Social units existing in the first place requires some level of empathy. Tribalism is just selective empathy, not the absence of it.

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        That’s because we’re just animals. I would say it this way: humans are not instinctually altruistic but are capable of being rational.

        Which isn’t any better and may actually be worse: we can be rational, but we can also rationalize our instincts.