Great Books Ep 19: War and competition: Fostering the justification for stealing
Maybe the innate capacity to steal property, time, effort, or freedom from another person gets stoked when there is a feeling of lack and limited resources.
“Therefore turn, and charge at the foe, to stand or fall as is the game of war; whoever shall bring Patroclus, dead though he be, into the hands of the Trojans, and shall make Ajax give way before him, I will give him one half of the spoils while I keep the other.”
~ The Iliad - Book XVII (Samuel Butler Translation. p124 / v232)
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