[roenxi]

It is worth a reminder that a healthy human's emotions are calibrated to perform optimally in a <1,000 community stuck together for life with scarce food, no technology and opponents who are fought with sharp sticks and blunt stones.

That moral framework doesn't function at the extremes of how human societies work these days. People keep demanding that leaders behave in a way that makes sense for a tiny community, and therefore regularly get ineffective or deceptive leadership. One of the reasons capitalism is so powerful is it puts rationalist guidelines in place instead of religious ones.

[soupfordummies]

>>It is worth a reminder that a healthy human's emotions are calibrated to perform optimally in a <1,000 community stuck together for life with scarce food, no technology and opponents who are fought with sharp sticks and blunt stones.

Really though? Healthy human emotion state is still calibrated at the experience of several thousand years ago?

While I do agree that healthy state is NOT calibrated for our current rapidly-technologized environment, I'm not sure it's correct that it's still stuck in the stone age.

Happy to be proven wrong though if you've got something interesting to read on the topic!