(January 25, 2018 at 11:41 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(January 25, 2018 at 11:21 am)wallym Wrote: You probably fear losing what you have? You don't want to be killed, jailed, be taken away from your family. Lose your house. Car. Access to the forum. Or whatever else it is you value.
The cost of committing atrocities is also so high, that the idea of committing them is a non-starter even if you'd enjoy it.
Add onto that, we're taught from childhood 'doing bad things is bad.' And there's just no reason to question it. But if you remove those consequences, like with the super rich or super poor, or if you're in one of those places there are large benefits instead of consequences, then all of a sudden, people start going the other way.
If there weren't a lot of redundancies in the system, humans wouldn't have lasted as long as we have.
I think being super rich/super poor/getting a benefit instead of a bad consequence merely brings out the people who were shitty all along and allows them to do what they wanna do. And perhaps there are more of them out there than we would like to think. But I don't think this means we ALL would commit atrocities if given the opportunity. I was never a believer in Lord of the Flies.
How do you explain history though? Don't the less developed periods of human history already show what we'd look like in a 'lord of the flies' scenario? Back when crazy levels of comfort and security weren't just handed to us from birth, things were not very pretty.
