Unable to adapt, they attemp to control the natural social order. Individuals of this type die out. We witness their final state, destructive insanity.

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(iii) Then, in such culturally evolved cooperative social environments, social selection within groups favoured genes that gave rise to new, more pro-social motives. Moral systems enforced by systems of sanctions and rewards increased the reproductive success of individuals who functioned well in such environments, and this in turn led to the evolution of other regarding motives like empathy and social emotions like shame.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2781880/

#SilentSunday

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Good news! If right, those who believe in hell end up there. The rest of us are free of that self-fulfilling prophetic nonsense.

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/religious-people-moral/

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Waiting for history that rhymes with Eva, Adolf, bunker and bullet.

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At least we were able to bet in the end of the world. /s

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Staying alive to witness justice.

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This Canadian favours complete independence from the USA, including its thieving markets, its pathetic politics, and its culture of corruption.

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USA, what an embarrassment you are.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/15/wildfires-in-ontario-make-toronto-canada-air-quality-worst-in-world

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The patience on the Left with the harm of the Right is astounding.

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Siding with settlers commiting, murder, including genocide means you have become evil in every sense of the word. Let there be justice for one and all.

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Hell seems too nice a place for rightwing American politicians, Graham, McConnell, and the like.

Since hell is unbelievable, maybe they will find an actual more just place, some place that meets out all the harm they caused.

In any case, good riddance.

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Nothing new today. Many good people still alive. Many bad people too. Climate change increasing and causing social chaos, wars, theft of other's land. Exploitation going full tilt. Moments of solace harder to find. Animal extinction ratcheting up. People going crazy as they look desperately to escape reality.

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Which came first, the y or the x?

I'm thinking x. / then \ then X then Y.

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Why we earthlings tolerate Trumps and Chumps is beyond my capacity to understand.

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Trump primaried by Belgium. 🤣

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Fascist bonsepurs cheater no help to Team USA. Au contraire, Trump is the biggest loser, ever.

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Money aka fiat capital is a cult consuming almost everyone.

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Are there any good people in power or does power corrupt absolutely?

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