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RE: How to Easily Answer Extreme Hypotheticals
The reply was meant for @therussianmonk . It was meant specifically for his statement that
It seems that many people find it instinctive to intrude and intervene into the lives of others, be it verbally, through gossip, or through the manipulation of space.
And what I meant to say was that "that's what living things do", they "encroach".
I did not mean to suggest the unrealistic notion that in a planet of 3 billion people there would be no encroachment, physical or otherwise. We can just try to squeeze into an elevator during lunchtime in an office building to see that impossibility. My suggestion was, that in a society that so often and easily encroaches on each others in more passive ways, such as the allocation of cameras on most street corners, or our activities and website usage being tracked online, etc., that more aggressive encroachment (such as violence at the individual/group/nation level) does not seem at odds with our general behavior, and it seems to flow logically from how we are conditioned. Like with other things in this world, the goal of eradication (of encroachment and violence) perhaps is unrealistic, but minimizing it can be achieved.