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I think the point I was trying to make was that we as humans have survived by having some sort of value system that means you put others before yourself. That means not a free for all, or winner takes the lot. This inherent altruism has generally been ignored by the powerful sociopathic dare I say phsycopathic people in the past and will happen in the future as it is happening now.
Organised Religion has served us well and badly in the past. We all live in the paradigm of our current age. It is up to us to separate superstition from science. Science is like any belief system it can be used for good and for evil. The worst part is defining good and evil depends on which side you are on and who is doing what and to whom.
My biggest fear is just as we humans are starting to really understand how the Universe works, powerful forces are trying to cloud these new understandings with fundamentalist assertions with no real testable evidence.
My last word on this topic. It is in the interests of the rich and powerful to keep the majority of the rest of us ignorant. They then can dismiss any highly educated individual or group with some derogatory label such as latte sippers.
I prefer to to point the finger at the billionaire classes, and if you do it is 'envy'. The wealth they have has been plundered from all of us by abusing the system that they control.
Our only defense as ordinary people is knowledge and eternal vigilance and dealing with your fellow humanity as you would like to be treated.
Bert
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