THE MORAL RADIUS There is some basic rule I haven’t articulated that’s along the

THE MORAL RADIUS
There is some basic rule I haven’t articulated that’s along the lines of the geographic scale of morality you can afford is the geographic scale of morality you can afford – meaning if you’re strong you can seek cooperation at scale or predation at scale. If you’re within the cooperative envelope (trade is possible) then the choice is both yours and your opponent’s. If they’re weaker it’s yours. If they’re stronger it’s theirs. The European problem is assuming that the world conducts war on the same terms europeans do with one another. They don’t. (See Keegan and Van Creveld).
Europeans are as naive in the belief their cultural biases are normal for humans when they are the opposite. Every culture believes its biases are normal or good for human beings … but that’s false.
Every culture other than europe failed by 800AD despite the agrarian revolution. And europe only succeeded because it restored Classical Thought and reconstructed greco-roman law around the north sea beginning in about 1000ad, as the muslims who preserved those works fled the rise of fundamentalism and it’s mandate of supernatural ignorance.