The great flaw.

You know I whould generally agreee that some traits that makes human really bad to interact with and that some big traits of society that are sucking much are caused by the ugly in the individual but at the same time is kind of hard to draw a line between what is useful and what not to “live in a society” that is also questionable as a goal as you cannot define the ideal society. Think about what is going on in the world right now: a lot of violence is systematic and caused by recursive ball breaking (thinking about the fight for social rights for example or the future fight to have universal income) that is totally fair violence in my opinion. But at the same time fighting for change disrupt the actual status quo that humans are “collaborating” to maintain for example.

I don’t think making humans more docile is a good idea at all. At the end the whole idea of having power over our bad instinct is a big trait we have and the possibility to choose if to be hostile or not is kind of a nice deal because not every situation is ok to be tolerated and I think there are a bunch of cases in which if we where altered to be “more cooperative” it whould result in a soulless distopia that fuck us all up in the long therm. I don’t want to be more cooperative in society that dosent give me enough rights in the name of a form of collaboration that is considered ok for society to function.

Not every form of collaboration benefits the integrity and freedom of the individual.

Not every form of rage is bad.

Also self control is the big deal of free will and what makes us different from animals. An animal has to be keep down to inject medications on them for example. A human will tolerate the pain because is capable of distinguishing between a thing that is good in the long therm but causes pain and a thing that dosent and willingly put themself into a painful situation to benefit themself more than the harm is causing and yes I am stealing this concept from dune.

A human in name of this can understand that raping and killing who angered you is bad and has to keep down their devious sexual or rage instinct because is doing harm. They have to choose not to rape and not to kill to be humans or it defeat the entire purpose of collaboration is there is no choice other than doing so.

I may be wrong.

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