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[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

It's true that cruelty has been around for longer than capitalism; it's untrue, though, that it has to be "unlearned". Every experiment (that I've learned about) demonstrated that even toddlers care about fairness, which (I would argue) is inherently opposed to cruelty