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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: Explorations of "social-interest": Origins of Human Society
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Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 14:33:24 EDT
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> > Human beings are individals.  They form societies for mutual benefit,
> > i.e., to facilitate achievement of their individual goals.
> > 
> > 						Mike Sykora
> 
> Can you cite a single instance of a lasting human society (not a club 
> or other special-interest organization) being formed by the rational 
> agreement of otherwise atomic human beings?  If not, on what basis are 
> you making this assertion?   There is disagreement among anthropologists 
> about how human societies form and develop, but it would appear that man
> is an *instinctively* social animal.  Do you have evidence to the contrary?
> 
> 						Baba

Plymouth Compact.  The original government of Rhode Island.

Those come right off the top of my head.

I don't know a great deal about their social organization, but the runaway
slave society of Brazil in the 1600s? 1700s? seems to qualify as well.