Can anyone identify ANY human society from ANY period in time that was inheirently loving, or that wasn't a Us vrs. Them mentality???
There is good reason for this lack, as well, and it is wrapped up in the word "society". Societies are inherently defined by their differences from other societies, and often moral rules are based on codes of conduct that are more or less agreed upon by the members of society. Therefore "us" refers to members of "our" society, often those who agree with "our" moral codes, and "them" refers to "their" society, those who don't follow "our" moral codes. Societies are a cultural construct that most probably had some use in the biological fitness-based evolution of our species, but in the process of this evolution we have created these parasitical social constructs "society" and "culture" which weaken us as a race, but seem to be more powerful than us, to the point that every victory we score over them (women's rights, racial integration, animal rights, gay rights, what have you) comes only at the cost of the most tremendous hard work and sweat by those who are oppressed by those parasitical social constructs.
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