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But every house cat has those same instincts, they just can’t act on them. They didn’t have the opportunities that colonial America had. The human desire for power and wealth isn’t some “inescapable instinct“ on a macro level? You sure?
I hope that you can appreciate that this post and this kind of argument has some Greoric-style suppositions baked into it - about how tribalism, barbarity, and exploitation are natural and inevitable so they should be actively enabled.
Regardless, the cat analogy is just silly. We're not talking about animal instincts for survival (and, ftr, that's why cats kill: to ensure their survival by securing nutritional intake). We're talking about deliberate actions taken by large systems of logical actors, usually represented inwardly and outwardly on logical bases. The cat doesn't secure its ability to kill the mouse by telling the rats and birds it is protecting their freedom.