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>"because only humans have the insatiable appetite for destroying each other." Chimpanzees 'go to war', and so do some non-great ape species like ants and term
by BitwiseFool 4y ago
>"because only humans have the insatiable appetite for destroying each other."
Chimpanzees 'go to war', and so do some non-great ape species like ants and termites. Interestingly, some ant species conquer other colonies and essentially 'enslave' the defeated worker ants using pheromones. It stands to reason that belligerence would arise elsewhere in the universe because it has on Earth several times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
- sph 4y agoAny life on Earth basically is and behaves the same. We're all cousins here. It is unreasonable to assume aliens are anything like us.
- ALittleLight 4y agoWhen you're sample size is 1 it's wrong to assume that the general population is exactly like your sample. Of course, it's slightly more wrong to assume the general population is nothing like your sample.
- adrianN 4y agoIt's entirely reasonable to assume that any life that evolves under resource constraints will have violent competition somewhere in whatever means of intergenerational data transport they use.