alt Hacker NewsWhat you describe is deepest human nature. We are tribal, period. No amount of morales will change that, no matter how it sits with you personally.
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Wouldn’t that be horrible? If great masses of humans did act morally, and you didn’t have this justification that everyone does it?
I feel like this is a false binary. Acting more morally some of the time is surely possible (both as individuals and as a society); we have at least some level of ability to choose our actions independent of our nature.
Yes, I was about to say this. A human is basically testicles with a brain attached, and the natural goal of life is to make sure that the genetically closest material survives and reproduces. That's why it's common to have stronger relationships with your family than with randoms on the internet. The more different the genetic material is, the less you care - individuals of different culture, of different race, of different species, of different kingdom of life, and finally viruses that are just strings of RNA floating around and nobody advocates about their rights because fuck that.
Some groups of people are much less tribal than others.