Take altruism, when resources are in abundance society tends to be highly altruistic as do people, because doing so benefits all of society by helping us all grow. However, when resources are short, societies tend to become quite selfish and resource greedy, putting themselves and their tribes first because doing so better increases their chances of survival.

So I would argue that, altruism is not natural, nor is being selfish, what is natural is adopting the traits that best suit the environment in which we are living. Sometimes it is altruism, sometimes it's not.

Manly traits were never natural nor are any socially constructed traits, so when we adopted them they were not natural, but it was natural to adopt them at the time because for whatever reasons they benefited society at that time more than other traits that at that time were known – we would not have adopted them otherwise. Rejecting them now benefits society because better ways are now known so it is again the natural action to reject them.

But, when we tell people to take up new traits and to be different to how those in the past were, people tend to struggle. I would argue that's why a lot of men and women struggle in the modern world, because you need such different traits to thrive in it than needed in the past.

So I would argue fundamentally that "policing" other people into change is at current the only known way to get the society to change. But you are right, it causes mental health and physical problems because it is asking people to reject one way and adopt a new way.

At current that is the only proven way to get society to change. And so it is the natural response, but it is not natural because the only thing that is natural is adopting the traits that best help our survival.

What I'm saying in a very long winded manner is that we need a new way to bring about societal changes, one that does not inflict mental and physical health problems upon people. At current the only proven way to get society to change is through policing people into doing things – perhaps because we are trained so much to resist change.

But anyhow, just because policing people into taking up certain traits inflicts mental and physical health problems, does not mean it's not per se natural to utilise such behaviour.

To me what it means is we need to come up with a better way to bring about change that does not inflict mental and physical health problems. And we need to do it quickly. Because that will see society start rejecting the policing way of bringing about change - because it will be the natural response to do so because a superior way of surviving will have been found. Perhaps that comes from teaching people how to be able to better cope with change. Or that the only natural trait is to evolve the best traits for your environment. Who knows.

But anyway, I see the fact that we police society to get it to change, not as a sign that the behaviour is not natural, but as a sign that we need a better way of promoting change in society. That's the point I'm making. I think ha ha, and apologies for the essay, that was not my intention! And apologies if this feels like I'm detracting from your point, not at all the intention, happy to delete it if you felt that as I must admit I had the vaccine today so I'm suffering from brain fog! But hopefully you get my point ha ha!