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Methuselah:I don’t accept your pemirse, which is to say, I see nothing in evolution that suggests I have any moral obligation to pay for other people’s problems (externalities).I understand that this is how society operates that here in the US, for instance, I have money taken from me by force (threat of fine, imprisonment, or both for non-compliance), and this money goes not to support my values, but the values of others.I also understand that by not willingly or otherwise paying for such things, one possible outcome is that things get worse, ushering in externalities and consequences for me even beyond those imposed by governmental threat of force against me.So be it. I’m perfectly happy to take my chances. I would far rather that my money (the fruits of the time and production of my life) go to pay for my values and those of loved ones, friends, associated, colleagues, etc. and I’ll live with the stocasticity of the rest.We evolved to account for the values and actions of 25-30 people, a context in which we had real and important influence in a group. I firmly believe that this is why hierarchical collectivism a-la the entire modern world, now, doesn’t really work, and will never work. Well, maybe a few hundred years hence, when all individuality has evolved out of us and we become the human equivalent of bees and ants.Trying to make it work is tantamount to keeping a mile long slosh tube in balance.Many in the EvFit / Paleo world of diet and fitness understand fully how arrogant modern man has become, unwilling to acknowledge that biological systems are as yet far too complex to mess with in providing all the frankenfood and drug therapy that pervades.What I’m saying is that the same goes for our modern social, economic, and governmental system.Never forget: the chief cause of death for humans is natural causes. The second chief cause of death throughout agricultural history is government. The toll is in the hundreds of millions.