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		__jal on May 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, ... > I’m not sure how an atheistic population could resist the forces of selfishness and tribalism First you're going to have to explain how religious populations avoid those. Hint: they don't.

weberc2 on May 22, 2019 [–]

I had already addressed this in a sibling subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19975618

Anyway, they do; that they do so imperfectly is not a counterargument, since (as I've mentioned several times), religion serves as a bulwark in this regard, not a panacea.

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