Posted on 10/01/2016 9:58:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
mad enough to kill?
In the “old” days......
Humans are tribal if you will. The intra tribal monogamy reduces violence and contributes to our ability to deal with the long childhoods our large brains require. On the other hand, we have more intertribal violence also related to the protection of mates and children. The noble savage is, of course, nonsense of the political and idealized society (Marxism - which ironic the most violent society we’ve devised so far and religious intertribal conflict usually represented by Islam today).
Anyhow that’s how I see it with quite a bit of current scientific support.
Alpha males in civilization exist to go to war... Kill the enemies or die trying. Beta males are not in direct harm’s way so they are busy with arts, science and business.
For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God
Savagery and barbarism are man’s natural state of being; civilization is the very thin crust over the volcano of man’s natural tendencies. Civilization is an aberration; it is unnatural.
Fact: It is very easy for man to revert back to the savage state from civilization; however, on the other hand, it is quite difficult to go from savagery to civilization.
If you read Daniel Boone’s autobiography, warring Indian tribes would burn captured enemies at the stake. He witnessed one such incident and the Indians began by taunting the warrior they were burning until they saw that the warrior didn’t make a sound of move a muscle until he died. Then they began to weep.
Government agents make tyrannical demands of both the good guys and the bad guys. Although more bad guys resist than good guys, there are plenty of cases where the good guys also resist.
The no-knock raid on the wrong address happens more frequently than reported.
If humans were inherently good and peaceful,
We would have to train kids to be selfish and fight.
We don’t.
That comes natural.
We spend decades training people to get along and observe the golden rule.
Ifmpeople,were inherently good, violence and conflicts would be the exception rather than the rule. Instead they are as “rare” as abortions at a planned parenthood.
Say it to urban blacks and its racist.
I remember my senior year in high school. It was the height of the new age nonsense and liberalism was really taking hold (1993).
One teacher asked, “raise your hands if you think people are naturally good?”
All but two hands went up.
The teacher then asked, “Raise your hands if you think people are naturally bad.”
Me and my buddy raised our hands. I guess I was ahead of the times.
Interesting.
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