1) They can also use simple force to do the same without wealth, or as in the dirt-poor but egalitarian tribes of the third world actual charisma.
2) Anything can be used for anything, really. All things are neutral, it is the end to which they are put that matters.
3) Not necessarily, power is rather chancier than it seems. Often those who seem powerful are only so by not doing anything and the real power structure can seem simple without and be convoluted within.
4) Entirely false, there is not a scrap of evidence for property in the Old Stone Age, certainly not among present-day chimpanzees.
5) An argument that presupposes that there are cultures that value wealth, which not all of them do.
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Re: The Myth of Strikethrough Innuendoes
Date: 22/9/11 19:58 (UTC)1) They can also use simple force to do the same without wealth, or as in the dirt-poor but egalitarian tribes of the third world actual charisma.
2) Anything can be used for anything, really. All things are neutral, it is the end to which they are put that matters.
3) Not necessarily, power is rather chancier than it seems. Often those who seem powerful are only so by not doing anything and the real power structure can seem simple without and be convoluted within.
4) Entirely false, there is not a scrap of evidence for property in the Old Stone Age, certainly not among present-day chimpanzees.
5) An argument that presupposes that there are cultures that value wealth, which not all of them do.