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Try not being greedy and only taking what you actually need...

People don't need laws, people need MORALS.

Do you need to eat 1 goose daily and nothing else or are you killing a goose once per day just to be an ass hat?

KentuckyChicken 1y ago

I could eat a goose every day. To feed my family especially.

Natural moral laws only work in a cohesive society that developed them over a long period of time.

For example , I'm in China right now. The cities have almost no birds. Not a single pigeon. People ate all of them.

As soon as one appears. It's quickly eaten.

Near where I live in America is a bank intended for the poor. Set up by local Christians. It's usually loaded with wealthy Chinese and Indian immigrants looking to save a few pennies. People who make more money than the people who donated the food.

How do we solve that problem with morals?

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white_male 1y ago

Through moral institutions? They could be giving the food towards their fellows in faith with necessary interview/audit within their parish. That's a workable solution working in few regions around the world.

KentuckyChicken 1y ago

That will work within a single church. But when one group comes in a realizes they can exploit a resource that is normally in balance through a honor system they will be given a survival advantage the local population does not have. So more and more will come until that resource is gone.

It's bound to happen in a global society.

Look at what happened to the native Americans. They only took what they needed.

Europeans came and took all of the buffalo.

They grew rich if the fur, strong and healthy from the meat and when there were almost no more buffalo the Europeans could fall back in their grains.

I could give many more examples.

This will happen every single time unless protections are out in place.

joemack 1y ago

Yeah I hear you. Natural resources is maybe the only thing stopping me from being a full anarcho-capitalist. The Dodo bird is gone. Sturgeon almost got fished to extinction in the Columbia river until some regulations were put in place. You only need a very small group to ruin it for everyone.

Mr Example 1y ago

The tragedy of the commons.