@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 month agoIf we need a common enemy for people to get along then society has already failedmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1161
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 month agoYou’ve got it backwards. Society doesn’t work without a looming threat, whether that’s an enemy or the environment.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•edit-21 month agoHow so? Unless your “enemy” is “anything that most people see as a source of suffering/pain/other kind of unpleasantness”, I do not see how your statement can be true. And even then it is still a dumb way to exist
You’ve got it backwards. Society doesn’t work without a looming threat, whether that’s an enemy or the environment.
How so?
Unless your “enemy” is “anything that most people see as a source of suffering/pain/other kind of unpleasantness”, I do not see how your statement can be true. And even then it is still a dumb way to exist