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Humans are not a violent species by any measure. Humans have evolved to produce social structures that mitigate the need for violence in all circumstances. Whe
by albertgoeswoof 8y ago
Humans are not a violent species by any measure. Humans have evolved to produce social structures that mitigate the need for violence in all circumstances.
When you talk about violence being a positivie in solving a bank robberies, you should be talking about how to prevent bank robberies in the first place, rather than designing a solution that presumes the robbery is going to happen no matter what.
Violence has no place in human society, and we have appropriate solutions in place if a human wants to express similar emotions to violence (eg by playing sport, video games etc) that have net positive effects on society.
- kingofhdds 8y ago>Humans have evolved to produce social structures that mitigate the need for violence in all circumstances. It doesn't contradict the notion "humans are violent". Social structures are often used to prevail collectively in conflicts, often violent, and one may say that's why they evolved.
- aalleavitch 8y agoYet increasingly these conflicts are resolved non-violently. Conflict is inevitable. Violence is not.
- vorpalhex 8y ago> When you talk about violence being a positivie in solving a bank robberies, you should be talking about how to prevent bank robberies in the first place, rather than designing a solution that presumes the robbery is going to happen no matter what. That's easy to say when you're not the one being held hostage in the bank robbery! We shouldn't learn to debug code or mitigate downtime either, we should just write code without bugs...