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Relevance? 

Extrapolate on a fractal path way leads to to strange potentials...if the outcome not called before hand. 

This is an okay book, as to what happens when people digress from modern life. They made a movie, I have no idea if it is any good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive:_The_Story_of_the_Andes_Survivors

Alive tells the story of a Uruguayan Rugby team (who were alumni of Stella Maris College) and their friends and family who were involved in the airplane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 which crashed into the Andes mountains on Friday, October 12, 1972. Of the 45 people on the flight, only 16 survived in sub-zero temperatures. After a few days, the rescue team who were supposed to be finding the survivors gave up. Consequently, the survivors had to keep alive by themselves. This meant that most of the survivors decided the only way to keep alive was by eating the dead, which was what many decided to do. The book was published two years after the survivors of the crash were rescued. The author interviewed many of the survivors as well as the family members of the passengers before writing this book in order to make his story as close to the truth as possible. He comments on this process in the Acknowledgments section:

I was given a free hand in writing this book by both the publisher and the sixteen survivors. At times I was tempted to fictionalize certain parts of the story because this might have added to their dramatic impact but in the end I decided that the bare facts were sufficient to sustain the narrative...when I returned in October 1973 to show them the manuscript of this book, some of them were disappointed by my presentation of their story. They felt that the faith and friendship which inspired them in the cordillera do not emerge from these pages. It was never my intention to underestimate these qualities, but perhaps it would be beyond the skill of any writer to express their own appreciation of what they lived through.[1]

If there was no sense of right and wrong and hence no punishment, no shit bad things would happen. Bad according to our standards, anyway. But we wouldn't see them as bad things anymore for the same reason. You lose, nigga.

Not necessarily, unless of course you prefer your palms for company...

A dog wags its tail and plays fetch because humans give it food and water. But take away humans and their handouts, and those sweet little puppies will turn into snarling beasts tearing apart rabbits and cats and little children and eating their carcasses for survival.

And those are our beloved pets that share our homes and our beds.

What makes us think we’re any different?

Humans are worse than dogs, because it wouldn’t even have to come to survival. If people knew they couldn’t die or be punished for anything they ever did, what do you think would happen? Absolute evil.

Strip away the concept of retribution, bring down the walls of fear, and the true evil nature of humans will gush forth.

to always see the truths in life tends to dull many of it's joys.

Imagine being raised without being punished in any way, and in a world where what we consider evil, is okay. Normal even. You wouldn't possibly know what is bad. The only exceptions I can think of are natural laws like murder and incest, where you have physically negative reactions to doing the "bad thing."

But yeah, if we just totally stopped enforcing rules right now, people would still follow them and shun rule breakers because that's how they were conditioned.

Bad is bad, but if there is no such thing as good or bad, it's hard to know if bad will still be considered bad.

"What makes us think we’re any different?"
While we share being domesticated, our minds age to a different state of understanding. The comparison is more accurate between animals and children.

We also (typically) aren't spayed or neutered.

"Humans are worse than dogs, because it wouldn’t even have to come to survival."
We undergo the stress response to what-if scenarios, something other species don't typically do. Stress can shorten our survival, so our working to reduce stress is about survival.

"If people knew they couldn’t die or be punished for anything they ever did, what do you think would happen? Absolute evil."
This is more likely if people who were once held accountable no longer were. If they were never held accountable, not even knowing what it feels like, it'd be another story entirely.

"Strip away the concept of retribution, bring down the walls of fear, and the true evil nature of humans will gush forth."
If it's the natural state of being, is it really evil?

Even if I were raised by the pygmies of papua new guniea, I would know that killing and raping and hurting is bad. I am cool like that.