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"but human nature" (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Dialectical_Idealist@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you only saw a bear in a circus, you would think its nature was to ride a unicycle.

It's also intellectually dishonest to ignore examples of communal behavior, such as gift economies and communal farrming, as somehow not counting when we're considering "human nature". There are exceedingly many examples of selflessness even in this individualist hellhole we built for ourselves.