Fear is a rather rudimentary means of regulating behavior: “do this, don’t do that, or else!” Given the high costs of maintaining the trustworthiness of the “or else”, it’s only economically viable to limit its use to things such as ensuring that people don’t kill each other or steal each other’s property. Threatening people with force if they won’t treat one another kindly or help each other in times of need just isn’t very likely to work. Religious leaders like Jesus and the Buddha argued against the rule of sheer force and recast the theologies of their times in more egalitarian and
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