ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agoIf we need a common enemy for people to get along then society has already failedmessage-squaremessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1152arrow-down111
arrow-up1141arrow-down1message-squareIf we need a common enemy for people to get along then society has already failedReanuKeeves@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agomessage-square38fedilink
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·13 hours agoYou’ve got it backwards. Society doesn’t work without a looming threat, whether that’s an enemy or the environment.
minus-squareShanmugha@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-26 hours agoHow so? Unless your “enemy” is “anything that most people see as a source of suffering/pain/other kind of unpleasantness”, I do not see how your statement can be true. And even then it is still a dumb way to exist
You’ve got it backwards. Society doesn’t work without a looming threat, whether that’s an enemy or the environment.
How so?
Unless your “enemy” is “anything that most people see as a source of suffering/pain/other kind of unpleasantness”, I do not see how your statement can be true. And even then it is still a dumb way to exist