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by stoppingin
1236 days ago
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I think that the human mind is not evolved for, and does not cope well in societies at the scale we now live in. I think there's a certain tipping point where social cohesion begins to break down, and people's psychology begins to shift from participation in a society of their peers, to guarding themselves from a society of potentially dangerous strangers. I think this phenomena has been extrapolated to a large scale. I also think that the society consisting of people who are largely genetically different from yourself has an impact as well on social cohesion, and by extension, on how people behave in society. |
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Rome existed for longer than the United States has existed without tying the legal definition of a Roman citizen to someone born in Rome (e.g. Paul of Tarsus, aka Saint Paul, was a Roman citizen and a congenital Hebrew from Anatolia), nevermind whether being born in Rome actually meant your parents were themselves from Rome too.
Phenotypical resemblance also never stopped any of the numerous and vicious civil wars and rebellions in Chinese history just as one example, nor did it stop the military aristocracy of Middle Ages Europe from constantly robbing, pillaging, and raping the peasantry and the clergy, so much that the Church had to issue numerous declarations and edicts to reign in the behavior of knights.