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If that's the case then isn't most of the violence in the world not motivated by morals (ie in a vacuum), but also mostly committed by things like spiders, bact
by Verdex_Alt 11y ago
If that's the case then isn't most of the violence in the world not motivated by morals (ie in a vacuum), but also mostly committed by things like spiders, bacteria, cows (or do you ignore the plight of grass?), etc.
- sp332 11y agoThe article mentions several categories: We analyzed records of all kinds of violence, ranging from war to torture to genocide to homicide. That other stuff seems out of scope.
- Verdex_Alt 11y agoWhy does it seem out of scope? In terms of biomass humans seem kind of insignificant. Some ants make slaves [1]. Some wasps torture cockroaches [2]. I don't know enough about them, but I imagine that bacteriophages would happily commit genocide [3]. I believe that humans are special because we're made in the image of God, but I mentioned the spiders et al because it felt like this whole thing was sliding into a philosophical realm where no one was defining their terms. Personally, I think if you're going to talk about morality and violence without indicating why you think humans are so important you should have a good reason why we aren't concerned about grass being oppressed because otherwise it's just opinions without consistency. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave-making_ant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave-making_ant [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_cockroach_wasp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_cockroach_wasp [3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage
- chongli 11y agoBecause the scope of the study was limited to human against human violence.