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# Ven Graham I don't think anything is inherently good or evil.  Those...

*February 3, 2023 — Comment Archer T. Ships replied to Lavender Graham's comment.*

Ven Graham I don't think anything is inherently good or evil.  Those are human value judgments that we evolved to make because they make us more reproductively successful. Most of our ethical intuitions serve us well in small, hunter gatherer tribes.  Which is why socialism is so persistently appealing, despite failing repeatedly at scale. In small tribes, most people are family members.  And it's easy to tell who is cooperating and who is defecting.   So equal sharing benefited close relatives, and fostering resentment/jealousy helped keep freeloaders in check.  But those intuitions are disastrous in communities much larger than Dunbar's number.