Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
Talk about a wingman, amirite?
Other factors of evolution include but are not limited to:
- Lying
- Stabbing people in the back
- Taking credit for other people’s achievements
- Fraud
- Theft
- Rape
- Murder, including patricide, matricide and infanticide
You ok
Wut?
Reads to me like “a thing arriving via evolution does not assign any kind of moral value, good or bad, to the thing”. Maybe going so far as “we should use language more carefully”, but now I’m really reaching.
Ah makes sense now and you are probably right.
The existence of mutual aid behaviours doesn’t mean much, in any animals but particularly human beings in the context of anarchism. Humans can cooperate when it’s beneficial and also stab each other in the back and step on one another when it’s beneficial. The behaviours aren’t mutually exclusive. Anarchists should expect negative behaviour along with mutual aid.
Human behavior is context dependent, and the right context can encourage mutual aid and discourage the behaviors you mentioned. This is more or less the goal of every society. It’s not like people, especially anarchists, somehow didn’t notice that people can sometimes be awful to each other.
It’s not like people, especially anarchists, somehow didn’t notice that people can sometimes be awful to each other.
In my experience, many people who follow an ideology or who have some deluded conception of reality or humanity believe that people will cease being awful to each other when some specific better future comes about. Communists with the revolution, Christians with the return of Jesus, deluded “spiritual” people with the New Earth or “new age” people with the Age of Aquarius and even, dare I say, some anarchists with non-hierarchical society.
You came to the anarchist instance to tell people that mutual aid isn’t believable?
Good on you for causally announcing that you’re a monster who won’t help others, I guess.
You came to the anarchist instance to tell people that mutual aid isn’t believable?
No that’s not anything like what I said.
