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I take every opportunity to recommend Rutger Bregman's book 'Humankind'. It's an extensive, closely argued and well-evidenced argument that most people are good - and why many people wrongly think they're not (because persuading us that we are brutish and unpredictable implies the need for a powerful ruling class to control us).
But actually it's easy to expose the weakness of the argument that humans are inherently greedy, etc... Just ask those making it if they are, in fact, themselves bad people - or their mothers, or their children. Generally, they then fall back to 'Well, I mean most people' - but then, of course, everybody that thinks humans are bad seems to think everybody they love is the exception...
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2023-08-04 16:08:48
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