re: #221 CuriousLurker

Yeah, that’s the thing—it’s like some kind of magical childhood thinking where everyone is going to agree on the rules and play fair. Shit, even children actually know better. Or rather they very quickly learn that there must be limits, and what we consider good/fair/polite usually involves a significant amount of self-interest: I’m gonna play fair and treat you nice because 15 minutes from now I might find myself in a position where I need you to reciprocate.

Yep, we can have a great world where everybody gets along and nobody takes advantage of anybody else…except that’s never existed in the history of mankind because it’s in our nature to be greedy bastards. Evolution built in us the instinctual drive to to grab more and more, because the better our living condition the better the odds our offspring will survive. So the idea that you could have peace and harmony in a system where everybody agrees to the same rules and everybody agrees to the same level of freedom is wishful thinking at its finest.