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Creating a Compassionate World: Addressing the Conflicts Between Sharing and Caring Versus Controlling and Holding Evolved Strategies

Paul Gilbert · 10 Feb 2021

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  1. Our reading

    Many typical forms of oppressive behaviour stem from evolved 'control and hold' resource strategies.

    Their wordsThese re-introduced competing for, rather than sharing of, resources and advantaged those who now pursue (often aggressively) control and hold strategies. Many of our most typical forms of oppressive and anti-compassionate behavior are the result of these strategies.

  2. Our reading

    Both wealth and poverty change the brain.

    Their wordsboth wealth and poverty change the brain.

  3. Our reading

    A compassionate society needs social and economic conditions that restrain 'control and hold' and promote 'care and share'.

    Their wordsOne of the challenges to creating a more compassionate society is to find ways to create the social and economic conditions that regulate control and hold strategies and promote care and share.

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