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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by __jal on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @07:53PM (#19976340)
> I’m not sure how an atheistic population could resist the forces of selfishness and tribalism

First you're going to have to explain how religious populations avoid those.

Hint: they don't.

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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by weberc2 on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @03:31PM (#19984628)
I had already addressed this in a sibling subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19975618

Anyway, they do; that they do so imperfectly is not a counterargument, since (as I've mentioned several times), religion serves as a bulwark in this regard, not a panacea.

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