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18 lines
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Markdown
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The general goal of civilisation is to make the deepest pleasures of Life sustainable.
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Practically, what this means is reducing the stakes of competition.
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In the most basic example, such as courtship, chastity and monogamy ensure that there is no moment in which someone feels deep sexual jealousy.
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If everyone must wait until marriage, and marriage is a lifelong commitment, then there is no situation in which a man has sex with a woman and then she is stolen. This prevents violent physical conflicts between men.
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The great problem of civilization is that it destroys the warrior mindset.
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A warrior does not need sustainable pleasures, because he may die at any moment. Therefore, it does not make logical sense from his own perspective to live this way.
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He may, and some do, due to social pressure. But the native mindset of a warrior is to take what is in front of him, I.e. raping and pillaging in victory.
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This dilemma would seem to verify the idea that a good civilisation has a particular warrior class, which abides by different rules than the rest of society.
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If this is not the case, the society will either lose its warrior nature or descend into chaos as the warriors conquer all. |