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vgodara t1_jdv7lg2 wrote

Reply to comment by 1nfernals in Vivek Venkataraman argues that political equality and proto-democracy were the most common form of political organisation in the "state of nature". These ideals preceded modern liberalism & statehood, and are arguably how humans have lived the majority of our evolution. by Ma3Ke4Li3

>Hunter gather societies

I was not talking about hunter gather. I am taking about full blown civilization with Cities.

>they were generally speaking more compassionate than we are today

This is very recent developments we trying to commercials every thing. From mentor to friendship every thing can be bought and sold. And on being generous they were only generous to in group members because they expected same kind of generosity in return. Which is commonly known as barter system.

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