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To: Dale Baker who wrote (212884)	12/28/2012 1:33:40 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541481

But rather than arguing that we are innately altruistic, he makes a more subtle claim—that we are fundamentally groupish. In classical philosophical terms, that would be, we are "social animals."

To: Dale Baker who wrote (212884)	12/28/2012 3:10:10 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 541481

I stumbled across the Culture of Honor discussion on another search. The Southerner was more likely from a herding region than a more urbanized region of England. In herding cultures you act as your own sheriff or people take what you have. This makes the person within this culture the conscience by proxy for the group and they feel that any indiscretion must be called out and potentially acted upon with violence. There are people that don't buy this explanation, but makes sense at some level to me. So, in the 19th century even though one was a sharecropper, the Culture of Honor promotes values of social decorum and individual wealth and the sharecropper can imagine that they are one bumper crop or two from land ownership and respect. Today it seems that it is the individual tradesman that imagines himself to be a contractor who in turn imagines himself to be a developer. So, because they imagine the possibility, they don't want anyone taking their future (imaginary) wealth. Urban city folks are more likely to be cynical and have experience the cycle of industrialist cum landlord and see the exploitative side of the social contract.