> Animals in nature can set an even worse example for humans in this regard.
Or worse yet, domesticated animals (of which I claim we also count).
Want to run human societies according to pig practice? Get fascism. (TIL the weak piglets only die because we've bred domesticated pigs to have too big a litter [12-14]; wild sows have litters [4-6] they can feed)
(Want to run human societies according to sheep practice? Do we get manufactured consent or theocracy or ?)
Want to run human societies according to horse/cattle practice? Get feudalism.
Want to run human societies according to horse/cattle practice, in the regime where a little food waste is cheaper than a vet call? Get socialism.
> Animals in nature can set an even worse example for humans in this regard.
Or worse yet, domesticated animals (of which I claim we also count).
Want to run human societies according to pig practice? Get fascism. (TIL the weak piglets only die because we've bred domesticated pigs to have too big a litter [12-14]; wild sows have litters [4-6] they can feed)
(Want to run human societies according to sheep practice? Do we get manufactured consent or theocracy or ?)
Want to run human societies according to horse/cattle practice? Get feudalism.
Want to run human societies according to horse/cattle practice, in the regime where a little food waste is cheaper than a vet call? Get socialism.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40020982
(the use of the word "freemartin" in Brave New World tipped me off to the fact that in part Huxley used other domesticated species as a model)