TruthSeeker said:
Maybe part of the survival in the "jungle" of capitalism requires a competitive behaviour, which in turn encourages a violent behaviour.
Capitalism?
We are a predatory social mammal from africa, and you're surprised that we are violent with eachother?
We are very much supposed to be violent, lets just get that straight right away, the animal we are is a combative tribal one. Human cooperative tendencies were only ever supposed to apply to the imediate clan. Human anger and violent tendencies were only ever supposed to apply to other humans outside the clan. The human being is equipped with anger for the sole purpose of outletting it on other human beings.
You want to "evolve" "past" it? Are you willing to cull all those who still have this instinct in tact?
Thats the only way its ever going to happen.
You know, if inter-human violence bothers you, that might mean you have evolved past it. But guess what? Thats not a compliment.
It means you were allowed to evolve because the human species lost its way. You're akin to someone with down syndrome, people with down syndrome would have been taken out of the gene pool fast back in the day, and people who were squeamish about hurting another person would have similarly been quickly taken out of the gene pool. Frankly from natures perspective you're spear fodder, but for some reason you remain.
It might seem like we have no need for combative tendencies anymore. The original purpose of it was to compete for resources in our eco-system and thus reserve them for the fittest. Tribes would hold down territory and then be challenged by tribes without territory and so on. Making sure only the toughest and most efficiently violent tribes held down territory and those less adept at combat were cleansed from the species' gene pool.
Now it seems we have ample resources. But do we?
We do today, and we will tomorrow, but they're eventually going to run out.
The human species being global means tribal combat needs to be on a greater scale. Countries now need to compete with other countries.
I would say there isn't anywhere near enough conflict for how many people there are and how fast resources are disappearing. The violence is backing up but it will eventually have to be released, and it will be far more severe than if we just kept fighting at the normal rate, keeping the population stable in the process.
We're setting up for violence and destruction on an unprecedented scale. And the reason actually has alot to do with people like you.
The human species can only avoid conflict for so long, while it is avoiding violence the rest of the planet suffers, we have the responsibility of keeping ourselves in check being at the top of the food chain, and we aren't. The rest of the world will degrade more and more untill eventually it will affect us substantially and I guarantee political correctness will go out the window in favour of survival.
Which will mean one hell of a war. As we go along we'll naturally make sure there are only as many people as the earth can support. Right now we can support heaps so we're all like "why fight? there is plenty for all
" but the amount of humans earth can support will eventually start decreasing. And where deers would merely starve to death, humans will go the combat route, we're equipped with a way to deal with depleted resources/overpopulation. We aquired it in africa millions of years ago, before we were even humans. And that is killing eachother.
When we need to, we'll quickly forget 'jesus' teachings'.
And people like you, truthseeker, who would rather starve then harm another human being, will be the first to go. Thats just the way it is.
There's this wierd misconception that species aren't supposed to harm members of their own species, only other species.
I don't know where this misconception came from, but its a complete load.
Especially for an animal like humans, we are supposed to occassionally hunt other animals for food(not even regularly) but kill humans all the time. Traditionally humans would have killed far more humans than they killed any other animal.
