| ▲ | robcohen 5 days ago | |
Aren't there only two rules that all groups follow in the animal kingdom? - don't lie too often - don't kill members of the in group Seems like these would be required for any group to survive, which makes sense why they are universal. All other rules/ethics seem to be dependent on resource scarcity. | ||
| ▲ | DrScientist 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
Groups don't follow rules as such, group behaviours emerge from the interaction of individual behaviours. As to whether all groups display those rules - I suspect not - though it rather does depend on how you define a group - the definition of group probably has some sort of colloboration built in ( as oppose to a bunch of indviduals that happen to live in the same geographic area ). | ||
| ▲ | coldtea 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
>All other rules/ethics seem to be dependent on resource scarcity That doesn't make the rest of the ethics (as a rule and mechanism) any less useful to help nurture the species and its intelligence. It just makes them not absolute but dynamic and condition dependent. But given a condition (e.g. resource scarcity) the appropriate ethics retain the utility we talk about. | ||