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[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

They also have plenty of archeological evidence of taking care of the sick or elderly even when doing so would be a resource drain, which means they cared enough about the sanctity of life to help someone who was I need even if it was not mutually beneficial to do so.

I never said conflict doesn't happen.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

They still are today. I thought you wanted to make the point of the people from the past being fundamentally different/pure.

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 1 points 13 minutes ago

No, I was objecting to the misanthropic point that "humans are inherently bad".

This quote from Graeber said it best.

We are projects of collective self-creation. What if we approached human history that way? What if we treat people, from the beginning, as imaginative, intelligent, playful creatures who deserve to be understood as such? What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?