Is human nature inherently egoist?

>>9172501
Yes. As is most anything else in the animal kingdom. Except eusocial creatures, like ants.

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>>9172511
But we are social as well. Communities and cities make living better for the individual.

>>9172520
Not first poster anon. But yeah man, it doesn't matter. It took us millions of years of evolution to achieve a few thousand years of civilization, which in itself in inherently egoist.

>>9172553
But in order for the egoist purposes to achieve their maximum (survival and so on), they need a non-egoist medium of the community, that's what I'm hinting at.

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>>9172520
Communities that the individual voluntarily enters and uses for his/her pleasure make for better living, and the same goes for cities, though I for one have never been in a city that I could enjoy at length. I can NOT be in such close proximity to that many humans.

>>9172520
What's the difference between an ant colony and a city? :^)

(hint: it is written in OP)

>human nature
LITERALLY a spook

>>9172565

> Falling for the social contract meme in 2017
wew

Nature does not exist.

>>9172501
Yes. We are flawed from birth. Only in God we find true Love for our peers. And we should aspire to that kind of love.

>>9172681
What? I'll live somewhere that it pleases me to live. If it ceases to please me, I'll go elsewhere. Where is a "contract" implied in that train of thought, other than a self-contract?

>>9172590
>>9172511
>like ants.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/10/most-worker-ants-are-slackers

>>9172789
Or bees. What now bitttttccccccccccchhhh.

>>9172501
At least like 90% so. People will sometimes act altruistically but it's the exception rather than the rule.

>human nature
>egoist
Don't cross the spooks.

'human nature' is gullible or impressionable enough to flatter itself, term by term; essentially, human nature is confused, schizoid at the very least, which is why it must be harnessed, i.e. controlled. Or, if the original proposition, why government? A more literary adjective would be 'fearful' --when this essential fear is successfully masked, little egos begin popping up; and when this occurs, grand (read bogus) propositions, e.g. where self opts for self.