Something I think is worth pointing out that even wars, our most destructive endeavors, are still fundamentally cooperative. Chimpanzees will raid each other but they won’t marshal armies with strangers. They won’t stand and fight in a line, risking their life for the sake of some guy they might never have met before. Those are human things. They depend on suppressing empathy for the enemy, but they still also depend on working together. Everything notable we do as a species does, whether for good or ill.
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