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So much for the noble savage. Rousseau's idea of uncivilized man living in peace and harmony which still enthralls the Left needs to be assigned to the same trash heap as the idea of a flat earth.
1 posted on 09/29/2016 8:56:08 AM PDT by C19fan
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Once again, facts that are plain as the nose on your face to us are major new discoveries to liberals.


2 posted on 09/29/2016 8:57:53 AM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (The true "axis of evil" runs through Brussels, Ankara, Riyadh...and D.C.)
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I wonder how much money these people make for concluding the obvious. Sounds like a great gig.


3 posted on 09/29/2016 8:58:56 AM PDT by webheart (We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)
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4 posted on 09/29/2016 9:02:16 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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The propensity for humans to kill one another may be hot-wired into our DNA

Cain killed Able and had offspring to spread his DNA. Able, no so much so. Oh, and I need $100,000 in grant money for arriving at that conclusion.

5 posted on 09/29/2016 9:02:22 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (When satan's sister calls you "DEPLORABLE", you know you're on the right path!)
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Our prehistoric ancestors were as violent as humans today


i.e. Times change. People don’t.


6 posted on 09/29/2016 9:02:58 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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This subject has been controversial. The long childhood of humans has reduced species intra tribal violence. However, inter tribal violence seems more prevalent than many other species. Monogamy has benefits within a tribe reducing competition for females.


7 posted on 09/29/2016 9:04:29 AM PDT by JimSEA
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They were?? Wow, these people are brilliant...for idiots.

The only thing that has changed, people can be killed much faster and en masse.


8 posted on 09/29/2016 9:05:09 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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I understand that the so-called "paleo diet" occasionally included human flesh.

Let's hope that doesn't become a thing.

9 posted on 09/29/2016 9:05:46 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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The whole thing was covered in Genesis.


12 posted on 09/29/2016 9:11:31 AM PDT by tbpiper
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Well, of course they were, and we have film evidence to prove it!

13 posted on 09/29/2016 9:12:15 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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Neither. It is spiritual in nature. Left-wing scientists so-called will continue to maintain that matter is all that exists, however.
And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

— Genesis 4:8

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

— Genesis 6:11

Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them. / For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

— Deuteronomy 31:28-29, Moses speaking

14 posted on 09/29/2016 9:15:38 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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“It is widely acknowledged that monopolisation of the legitimate use of violence by the state significantly decreases violence in state societies,” the paper explains.


It does until the state is seen as shirking its duty of using violence where necessary. Then, the would-be victims will increase their use of violence until either the state starts doing its job, or the problems are vitiated.


16 posted on 09/29/2016 9:25:10 AM PDT by sparklite2 (When they play the race card, play the Trump card.)
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Studies of modern hunter gatherer societies and ones in the past century showed MUCH higher murder rates, 10-30X that of civilized society.
The myth of the noble, peaceful savage is just that - a myth.


17 posted on 09/29/2016 9:27:40 AM PDT by tbw2
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Fifty five years ago I read of an archeological dig in which they unearthed the skeleton of a prehistoric man. Firmly lodged in the backbone was a flint spear tip.


18 posted on 09/29/2016 9:33:05 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (HANDGUNS; You don’t need it until you need it. And when you need it you NEED IT!”)
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Yeah! A bit part of the “Leftist meme” was that man was inherently good if left to their own devices, ignoring the fact that civilization has to be pounded into most people.


20 posted on 09/29/2016 9:36:06 AM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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Geico caveman photo: Texas Tech Taylor potts Geico Caveman geico-caveman1.jpg Just don't diss me man and we're cool.
21 posted on 09/29/2016 9:42:08 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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American Indian peace and harmony here!

http://www.dickshovel.com/scalp.html

“The scalping victims considered in this study came from the Southeast, the Midwest, and the Southwest.

The Midwest is by far the region with the largest sample, estimated at between 400 and 500 scalped individuals. However, most of these victims came from Crow Creek Canyon, the site of a large-scale massacre involving a minimum of 486 individuals (Gregg et al 1981).

The excavators report that not only were almost every person scalped, but they also were mutilated and dismembered, and many of their hands and feet appear to have been removed and taken as trophies.”

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Interesting mention of the taking of hands and feet as trophies. In Burke’s book ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK he mentions how they the troops and their Shoshone allies had attacked a hostile Cheyenne camp, and in that camp they found a bag of hands cut from Shoshone babies.

The Shoshone allies took the bag, and spent the entire night weeping and wailing over it.


22 posted on 09/29/2016 9:43:21 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (HANDGUNS; You don’t need it until you need it. And when you need it you NEED IT!”)
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scores of studies questioning whether this vicious trait is an evolutionary development or the result of our cultural or social dynamics.

Try "Original Sin". You can read all about it in the "Book of Genesis".

23 posted on 09/29/2016 9:45:07 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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I’ve often said that war is man’s natural state, and that peace is only the exception that proves the rule.

History is little more than a study of mankind’s repeated conflicts.


25 posted on 09/29/2016 9:47:20 AM PDT by IronJack
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Rousseau's idea of uncivilized man living in peace and harmony which still enthralls the Left needs to be assigned to the same trash heap as the idea of a flat earth.

Who are you going to believe, a guy wearing make-up and lacy drawers sitting around sipping wine or the evidence of your lying eyes?

I always wondered why anyone with two brain cells to rub together took Rousseau seriously.

27 posted on 09/29/2016 9:55:06 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
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