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To: greenspirit who wrote (49338)	7/25/2013 10:01:24 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Ali Torres · Top commenter · Corning, California Even before mankind knew how to write, control fire, or plant in the ground, we lived in social groups for the purpose of mutual support and benefit. We understood, ten thousand years ago, that we survived better as a group. The strong protected the weak and the weak provided their individual and unique skills for the benefit of the whole. In short, societies developed around a social system both politically and economically in order to survive more effectively. What has changed in these ten thousand years? Have we become so calloused, so self-absorbed, that we no longer care about what happens to our fellow human beings? When did the security of the society around us become an evil? And when did the sharing of the wealth produced by the community become undesirable? If it did become undesirable, why? Answering this last question would take an investigation of book length, but the short answer is greed and selfishness.