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if you have domesticated herds and you live in an arid climate, you can regard your milk animals as portable water fountains that eat vegetable matter which you
by hprotagonist 6y ago
if you have domesticated herds and you live in an arid climate, you can regard your milk animals as portable water fountains that eat vegetable matter which you cannot, and produce protein and hydration more or less on demand, for free.
Hell of a lot easier than oasis hunting.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> for free Sort of. You have to feed them, often by moving from site to site throughout the year as pastures become overgrazed. Even more importantly, you have to guard them against rustlers. The incentive for someone else to steal your animals is so high that preventing raids ends up dominating your life.
- chrisco255 6y agoAnd thus, the concept of war was born.
- meepmorp 6y agoI'd bet humans invented warfare way before animal husbandry.
- chrisco255 6y agoHey! Those are OUR mastadons!
- Fricken 6y agoHuman's didn't invent war. Insects go to war.
- meepmorp 6y agoInsects also practice animal husbandry.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoThat's true, but we can still say humans invented animal husbandry; humans descend from species that didn't practice it. In contrast, humans have a continuous tradition of war that goes back long before the differentiation of the species.