re: #77 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Itimes where without stratified social controls and state monopoly on violence people have behaved decently and altruistically.

Almost always in small groups where trust or safety is a given.

His hypothesis was about man in the ‘state of nature’, which does not exist anywhere on earth.

The natural state of man is conflict, and that is evident…all over the place and in every time period we can research. The conflict may be ideological or over resources, but the conflicts will not go away as long as homo sapiens can fashion a stealth bomber or a sharp stick to gain advantage over another group of homo sapiens.

That is how we roll, and it is how we will always be. Sorry to harsh the mellow here, but again, the sum of recorded history bears this out.