How can we create the social context needed for people to truly care about others outside of their extended family?

Some of the deepest foundations of modern society started because families weren’t allowed to marry first cousins anymore.

One of the main reasons humans have been so successful, as Israeli researcher Yuval Noah Harari points out, is due to what is called “fictive kinship.” Most species hang out only with family. Everybody else is a potential enemy. Good ol’ Homo sapiens have been so successful because we’ve extended the definition of family by using mutually agreed up

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