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Comment author: mwengler 30 June 2012 02:17:28AM 2 points [-]

When we lived as hunter gatherers, an individual could find a group with compatible moral intuitions or walk away from a group with incompatible ones.

I suspect that this was much less true among hunter gatherers than it is now. From what I have read of groups in the Amazon and New Guinea, if you were to walk away from your group and try to walk into another, you would most likely be killed, and possibly captured and enslaved.

Comment author: stcredzero 30 June 2012 03:06:04AM 3 points [-]

From what I have read of groups in the Amazon and New Guinea, if you were to walk away from your group and try to walk into another, you would most likely be killed, and possibly captured and enslaved.

Perhaps this varies because of local environmental/economic conditions. From my undergraduate studies, I seem to remember that !Kung Bushmen would sometimes walk away from conflicts into another group.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 June 2012 10:09:10AM 1 point [-]

Yes. That's true of many other mobile forager societies as well.

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