02/29/2012
Most crimes are due to the clash of our primal urges with the norms of the current society. Since our emotional machinery is still best suited to the living conditions of 15000 years ago (evolution is painfully slow process), we are not well equipped to deal with the experiences of highly complex society such as what we currently have. I think the more technologically and socially advanced we become the more psychological cost we will have to pay (because the clash would grow bigger), and the more incentive there will be to snap and "cheat" (break the required social decorum), and that will eventually cause the society to collapse. Maybe we should go slow..
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