Sebastian Junger
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 13 Jun
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They had to scale up and come up with answers that aren't very finely tuned to actual human needs.
But basically, you pay taxes, and then the society's duty to you is to basically keep you safe from harm, to render aid if you're in a crisis.
It all sort of makes sense, right?
And I think the conversation, and the conversation between liberals and conservatives is, where is that line, right?
The idea of a society that owes nothing to the individuals is barbaric, right?
I mean, someone's dying on the sidewalk and there's no ambulance to call, right?
Or they kick him out of the hospital because he can't pay the $10,000, you know, for the appendectomy is barbaric, right?
On the other hand, there's a real consequence for society when people sort of game the system and try to take more than, let's just put it this way, more than they should.
And I've looked at the origins of moral behavior.
in humans, right?
Which they just sort of start in, you know, we're social primates.
And you can see some sort of moral behavior in chimpanzees.
But really, with the advent of language, people could really talk about what is right and what is wrong.
And there were two main
There's a wonderful anthropologist called Melvin, I think his first name, Connor.
And he wrote a book called Moral Origins.
And he said there's two main crimes that survival groups are on the lookout for.
One is abusive leadership, like leaders that abuse their position and enrich themselves, advantage themselves.
hurt other people that are lower than them.
And those people, that was one of the things that would elicit capital punishment.
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