Don’t let someone tell you that survival of the fittest means weak links in a tribe would be cast off for the betterment of the tribe. Its utterly bullshit and ahistorical.
Human society developed and flourished because of cooperation. This whole individualism bullshit is relatively modern and is obviously leading to the downfall of humanity rather than furthering it
Infanticide was common in prehistoric humans, not as a “culling the weak” thing, but as an alternative to abortion to ensure there were enough resources to ration among existing members of their community. And archaeological evidence suggests they didn’t have the heart to bludgeon them or anything; they just left newborns they couldn’t afford off in the wilderness
Food rationing was the norm in ancient humans. Especially among our sub-species, the homo sapien, even moreso than extinct human sub-species like homo neanderthal. Elderly and disabled members of one’s community would almost always be taken care of
Don’t let someone tell you that survival of the fittest means weak links in a tribe would be cast off for the betterment of the tribe. Its utterly bullshit and ahistorical.
Human society developed and flourished because of cooperation. This whole individualism bullshit is relatively modern and is obviously leading to the downfall of humanity rather than furthering it
Agreed. Liberals have been tying to prove that the rational self-interested individual is a natural and biological truth since the dawn of liberalism.
The original response to libertarianism
Infanticide was common in prehistoric humans, not as a “culling the weak” thing, but as an alternative to abortion to ensure there were enough resources to ration among existing members of their community. And archaeological evidence suggests they didn’t have the heart to bludgeon them or anything; they just left newborns they couldn’t afford off in the wilderness
Food rationing was the norm in ancient humans. Especially among our sub-species, the homo sapien, even moreso than extinct human sub-species like homo neanderthal. Elderly and disabled members of one’s community would almost always be taken care of