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So, do we know what decides if a person develops to become more greedy, agressive and selfish while another becomes altruistic and doesn't care much about wealth and power? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by catharso@discuss.tchncs.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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"my, my! humans! so aggressive."

rape, murder, nukes, war, torture, power, seemingly unlimited greed...

why don't i have that insatiable drive?

can't all be how i was raised, can it?

do you know of any studies or philosophical insights?

thx! 🙂

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[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really like this question and it is one I think about a lot when daydreaming since having kids. When would I know if they've gone bad? If they do end up antisocial or narcissistic will I be able to point to a situation or chain of events that caused it? Will I even know?

[–] OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't have kids. Global fresh water reserves will be 40% over capacity by 2030, and 90% of global top soil and arable land is at risk of depletion by 2050.

And that's just water and food, add climate collapse and fascism, and billions of people are going to die in the next 30 years.

This is not a world you should be looking at and thinking about adding more lives to.