• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    And also not having to worry about freezing to death. Or starving to death. Or dying from injury. Or dying from animals. Etc.

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      10 months ago

      All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what has civilization ever done for us?

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      10 months ago

      I think of that as the cumulative result of natural survival instincts. There’s nothing really very civilized at all about today’s civilization except that we’ve built facades to pretend to ourselves that we’re really “good” people who care about sheltering and feeding others. We actually don’t. WE just want to have more for ourselves everyone else, and kill the people who get in our way. (and that’s true of all humans).