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Originally Posted by MargaretR
I think you underestimate the capacity for compassion that early civilisations had.
There is archeological evidence that nearthandel society protected and sustained severely disabled members of their groups.
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Should have been more specific, and said each provide for themselves, or their own.
I've never seen any evidence of them providing palliative care for those who could no longer fend for themselves, who had no family.
Without taxation, raised collectively from a monetarist system, there would be no funding for those nature had decided weren't fit enough for survival.
That's not taking into account human nature itself, and the fact some lazy arses wouldn't work at all if there was no reward.