(02-12-2021, 10:09 AM)dynamicalVoid Wrote: Kill them and take their stuff...so that our family is better off. We dont trust them...gotta kill them or keep them down so they dont overtake us.
Why dont they teach this in schools? Riiiight...."figure it out for yourself".
Again....do you want your neighbor f'ing you up and taking your stuff? Right...."Survival...the smart people get it".
But its ok to lie to kids about being civil. Throw a civilian in jail for stealing at the corner store, though.
And people should just be ok with this and blindly follow and not try and make things better? War game?
Being half evil for science or survival doesnt seem intelligent to me.
Umm, the American army fighting the British were not trying to "take their stuff", or anything like that. They were trying to keep the British from taxing them without any representation. I don't understand why you can't see the necessity for people to form a government to protect them. Just review world history for a while and you will see why it's necessary.
I loved those "protest" and "peace" songs from the 1960's, and I wish the world could work like that and "sing in perfect harmony". But it never will, because of human nature. The truly intelligent person learns from the past and recognizes the true nature of humans. The only solution is to attempt to form "a more perfect union", based on a set of commonly shared and agreed upon mores and beliefs, which is what our founders did.
And, no, a civil society cannot, again keeping in mind human nature and the lessons of history, allow theft of other people's property to become acceptable, because then it really is going to degenerate into the survival of the strongest. The strong will simply take what they want and to hell with the others.