I'm saying that psychologists have run lab experiments.
they come up with that number after hundreds of tests.
people can 'grasp''...a certain number of people
beyond that they cannot.
that number, as everything else...is a variable for different individuals..as graphed by the bell curve.
I'm an extreme introvert...my inner social groups can be counted on my fingers..
some people might count theirs in the thousands..
the principle still appllies.
if it's US..or THEM...
I'll chose us any day.
fuck them.
which brings to mind the solution to all violence..(or most)
a culture of abundance.
if there's more than enough to go around..
no fighting.
You don't understand, I wasn't referring to people's immediate allies.
I was saying that people could care about others, just on a different degree.
I am disagreein with you on the fact that "care" must always be strong.
I am saying "care" is relative. Like if you buy a house for your kid, that is big care. If you invent a technology that can help save a 3rld world child's life, that is also "care", just on a different level, more indirect, but still it's care.
You don't need to know people directly to have care for them.
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yeah..I don't understand.
I DO have to know someone..up close and personal...to care about them.
one death is a tragedy..a million deaths are a statistic.
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Maybe you feel that way, but that is perhaps your own philosophy, but others might not feel that way.
An inventor doesn't invents things just to make money, if making money were his goal, he would have been a banker or an investor.
An inventor might have secondary goals, like the wellbeing for his community. He doesn't have to know everyone to care for them, in fact if he would know most people, he would realize that he might hate a lot of them.
So in some sense Maslow's self-actualization phenomena, is in fact a way how people are helping others.
Collectivism is a very complex system, and it all boils down to the individual. The individual is the core of society.
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Too bad physics exists.
And belief.
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