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Originally Posted by HansTWN
If you watch small children play you will notice that the idea of ownership comes natural to them, while sharing is something that has to be taught. Children only share when they get something in return (some other stuff, attention, praise, love, etc.
Protecting what is yours is one of the most basic survival instincts.
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It would interesting to know if children exposed to an environment where ownership did not exist still came predisposed into the world with ideas of ownership.
What I mean is, abstract conceptions such as ownership or sharing most likely need to be imprinted onto our consciousness through repetition and do not come preloaded onto the genome.
We are at the core viral replications, the high level manifestation of reckless copying.