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To: Heartlander

In any competition, the more aggressive are more likely to win, other things being more or less equal.

Lions prey upon antelope. Yet how does an antelope compete with the lion? It doesn’t, any more than a turnip competes with garden bugs. It competes with other antelope to avoid being eaten by the lion.

The lion also competes with other lion. Every organism within an ecological niche competes only with other organisms in that niche, not those outside it.

Any organism that evolved to intelligence would have to be fairly aggressive, both to obtain the scarce resources needed to develop and power a brain, and to be able to defend itself. Because there is only so many non-technological entities a planet can support before Malthusian situations will arise


45 posted on 06/22/2016 1:56:18 PM PDT by chesley (The right to protest is not the right to disrupt.)
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To: chesley

“Any organism that evolved to intelligence would have to be fairly aggressive, both to obtain the scarce resources needed to develop and power a brain, and to be able to defend itself. Because there is only so many non-technological entities a planet can support before Malthusian situations will arise.”

Well, that’s how it seems to have happened here. But aren’t we then extrapolating from an example of one?

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54 posted on 06/22/2016 2:06:49 PM PDT by Ransomed
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