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To: Ilaine who wrote (78040)4/13/2000 9:21:00 PM
From: Michael M  Respond to of 108807
 
Absent a social context, I suspect humans act strictly based on self interest (regulated somewhat by understanding of their environment and fear).

In a social context, I suspect humans continue to act in self-interest but learn the value of considering the common good (or, in some cases, the common will).

Whether you want to call them religious figures, wise elders (survivors) or whatever, there is a class that gains great sway by seeming to be able to reconcile fear and the unknown.

Whether God exists is one question but I do not think the world we know, with its cultures, civilizations, and moral and civil codes could possibly exist without the work of those who have claimed to be His agents.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming.....

M



To: Ilaine who wrote (78040)4/13/2000 10:07:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Respond to of 108807
 
I don't think siblings of royalty have ever thought of the king as anything other than the brat with the luck to have been born first. But it's amazing how long populations outside the palaces accepted without demur the notion that kings were entitled to rule. Of course, they always had the priests (who knew where their bread was buttered) reminding them that God wanted it that way.


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