Modern life is lonely – We all need someone to help

Re:Modern life is lonely – We all need someone to help by watwut on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @05:06AM (#15959108)

"Harassing someone whose existence is necessary for you all to eat tomorrow or to avoid getting eaten by wild animals is going to be quite a different situation."

Then again, harassing someone who depends on you is entirely different.

Then again, bullying someone so that you ensure pecking order and he does what you want and is beneficial for you a bit more in situation with scarcity is different too.

Suburban middle schools kids did not invented cruelty nor mockery nor ostracization nor beating other kids up. My grand parents remembered such stories. Old books contains such stories. If anything, this get worst with bad situations - hunger or war. There is no reason to think primitive people were somehow magically honorable and noble.

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Re:Modern life is lonely – We all need someone to help by colechristensen on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @03:11PM (#15963761)

I'm talking about primitive human hunter-gatherer society, you're talking about your grandparents.

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Re:Modern life is lonely – We all need someone to help by watwut on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @02:50AM (#15967803)

"small groups of mostly related people" still bully and harass each other which is case of grandparents childhood. Why would hunter-gatherers not? Especially since victim leaving his group makes him vulnerable to all those other tribes that would "tried to kill" you (plus your old)?

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