A 12 year old ted talk with moral philosopher James Flynn. He also mentions how university students in the 50s would go to their parents and grandparents and try to argue using hypotheticals, which never worked. I also noticed that “concrete thinking” is common among children, which is probably our human default.

When you think about it, it makes sense that most people thru history wouldn’t need to bother with hypotheticals, those ideas would be so far removed from their reality that it made no sense to bother thinking about it.