Survival in scarcity dictates nastiness with a rival clan, but also dictates goodness towards our own clan whose support is vital to acquire or defend the necessary scarcities.

Man’s nastiness or goodness is not his fault or merit;
They both create the vital coping mechanism to his environment of scarcity.


Haroutioun Bochnakian

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