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regnaD kciN

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4. Part of it is a natural urge to competition...

Reply to Sky Jewels (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 11, 2023, 08:21 PM

Feb 2023

…which seems to arise at the onset of puberty. But society can control how that is expressed, and it seems our hyper-competitive society, which lionizes the struggle for “survival of the fittest” and insists on defining a strict pecking order where you always know who’s “above” you and who’s “below” you, makes things several orders of magnitude worse.

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