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by RyanAdamas 693 days ago
This reminds me of Lord of the Flies. The real version of the events turned out very differently.

https://www.newsweek.com/real-lord-flies-true-story-boys-isl...

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Rebecca Solnit wrote a book, "A Paradise Built in Hell", on how people behave during disasters, and found broadly the same thing - contra the prepper myths, most people most of the time faced with disaster come together to work cooperatively to help each other.

We're a fundamentally social species - we've got smaller brains than Neanderthals did, we're not a particularly tough species, but we're very, very good at cooperating with each other.