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It's removal of responsibility and we are all guilty of it.
If we set up a whole bunch of complicated bureaucracy, rules and regulations and institutions and organizations to deliver a program and tell someone to do something at some time, some place for some reason .... we're separated from the final action by dozens or even hundreds of people. We don't care because it's being done by other people somewhere else and none of it is happening in front of us. The people setting up the rules remove their responsibility by saying that they just gave orders and others are free to disagree with them - those doing the actions remove their responsibilities because they'll argue that they were ordered to do it and it was all just part of their job. (Look up the legal arguments of Nazis and German veterans being prosecuted during the Nuremberg trials after WWII).
If someone were sitting in front of you and you had a sandwich in your hand and the man in front of you said they were hungry and asked for your sandwich ..... for the majority of people everywhere, no matter, race, religion, creed, background ... they would give them the sandwich without much thought.
When we are closer to the event, we are more apt to act humanely towards our fellow man. Once we remove ourselves from each other, we will do the most terrible things to one another.
You're mainly talking about the Monkeysphere. People outside our Monkeysphere aren't really human, not in the way insiders are. Never read anything that covers so much human behavior in a single article. We didn't evolve to behave in groups of larger than 150-200 or so.
i've met like 3 other people outside my family who talk about monkeyspheres. it's such a great model.
This is well stated, and I really think it's one of the core problems with every form of government. How do you scale the social support system without turning it into a machine?
that is also why meat plants, started barring people form filming the animals being sluaghtered, if they can keep the killings out of the publics mind, they dont care about eating the meat of an abused animal.
I know a lot of people who would not give the sandwich in their hand
Which is why I said "the majority" of people. I also know a few people who wouldn't give the sandwich.
But the situation also plays out differently if it is just those two people alone with no witnesses.
If the same thing happened and there were one, two or more people watching it all happen ..... the person with the sandwich is more apt to do the humane thing because other people are watching.
i saw someone bought mcdonalds sandwich for a homeless, but i suspect he had a ulterior motive to impress his wife/gf at the time.
This is close to "Nobody does anything good without an ulterior motive." Which is exactly what the power structure wants you to believe.