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  • balloon [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I got hit with the "it's human nature to be greedy" quite a few times and was not able to respond to that well.

    • gramsciezethemeans [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Just say that ignores thousands of years of the anthropological record. Humanity's relative success is nothing without cooperation.

    • poppy_apocalypse [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      I cured my brother of that shit by demanding something from him every time he asks me for help. "Can you take my dog for a walk?" Buy me a pack of smokes. "Can you help me put my bike in the truck?" Only if you lend me your Switch. Took about a month of that before he finally gave up with that bullshit.

      Debt the First Five-Thousand Year Chapter 5 kind of wrecks the greed is normal argument.

    • scramplunge [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      “There’s always going to be greed.” Yeah and the point is to band together as a community to defeat it. Not idly let it happen, but stop it before it kills off the human race. But that’s a hard sell when most people in the U.S. feel they too are the beneficiaries of greed.

      • CantTrip [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        And that's like saying "There's always going to be rape," and then not being anti-rape or even being pro- rape.

        But then they'll turn around and say 'but greed isn't always bad," which I mean lol