98% humans are selfish individuals.. the best system is the one that rewards the selfish desires of the individual...
Do yourself and the internet a favor:
read more,
learn more,
think more, and talk less.
Just watched the RSA Animate - The Empathic Civilization you referred!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7gA nice video where author describes the humans are basically empathetic species!
But what difference does this make! this world is also filled with ISIS like people who show no empathy!
then the argument would be ISIS just represents less than 1 percent of the population and the rest of them are empathetic individuals!
and when we bring statistics into argument it goes back again to the same story of SELFISHNESS VS ALTRUISM!
the real solution to this argument would be to cite scientific studies which found out if majority of humans are selfish individuals or altruistic!Does it really matter?
Shouldn't we, as individuals and civilizations as a whole, aspire to be the best that we can be?
The Vedic texts, the mighty Greek philosophers, the Magna Carta, the Leviathan, The Two Treatises of Government, The Age of Enlightenment - all these are the byproducts of humanity's attempt for material and spiritual advancement.
Our values and morality have grown throughout the ages since the dawn of history. Imagine, less than a century ago women still can't vote in the United States. Less than two centuries ago, the law accepts that some humans are inferior to others. Less than four centuries ago, the Church gave their blessing for the genocide of non-caucasoids. Less than six centuries ago, the modern concept of courtship and love still hadn't emerged.
The right thing is never the easiest to do. If it was, most of us here won't be gambling, smoking and womanizing our lives away.