I completely disagree and believe you're extremely naive to human nature. Humans as a natural state are tribal and violent. Just look at cultures dating back to the dawn of time. Even among seemingly same peoples like the Native Americans there was constant war and slavery divided between tribal groups, because each tribe or group wants the resources and power to help their own tribe survive and flourish at the expense of others.
We even see it in modern times, humans naturally will divide themselves into tribes. Even this forum is itself a tribal group.
Sure within a tribe humans can cooperate, as in your own family or group because it can be beneficial. But this again stems from deriving a benefit from the relationship, and even within families there are many who selfishly exploit for their own gain.
It's only within religious frameworks that you see truly selfless behavior where people sacrifice at their own detriment to help others.
To say "love" is a natural state of being is just really out of touch, hippie new age viewpoint completely detached from reality.
I completely disagree and believe you're extremely naive to human nature. Humans as a natural state are tribal and violent. Just look at cultures dating back to the dawn of time. Even among seemingly same peoples like the Native Americans there was constant war and slavery divided between tribal groups, because each tribe or group wants the resources and power to help their own tribe survive and flourish at the expense of others.
We even see it in modern times, humans naturally will divide themselves into tribes. Even this forum is itself a tribal group.
Sure within a tribe humans can cooperate, as in your own family or group because it can be beneficial. But this again stems from deriving a benefit from the relationship, and even within families there are many who selfishly exploit for their own gain.
It's only within religious frameworks that you see truly selfless behavior where people sacrifice at their own detriment to help others.
To say "love" is a natural state of being is just really out of touch, hippie new age viewpoint completely detached from reality. You ever heard of that couple who thought evil doesn't exist so went cycling trough the Middle East and got murdered by Isis? Don't let that be you. People are not "naturally" good.
I completely disagree and believe you're extremely naive to human nature. Humans as a natural state are tribal and violent. Just look at cultures dating back to the dawn of time. Even among seemingly same peoples like the Native Americans there was constant war and slavery divided between tribal groups, because each tribe or group wants the resources and power to help their own tribe survive and flourish at the expense of others.
We even see it in modern times, humans naturally will divide themselves into tribes. Even this forum is itself a tribal group.
Sure within a tribe humans can cooperate, as in your own family or group because it can be beneficial. But this again stems from deriving a benefit from the relationship, and even within families there are many who selfishly exploit for their own gain.
It's only within religious frameworks that you see truly selfless behavior where people sacrifice at their own detriment to help others.