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There's a hypothesis that becoming relatively easy-going and respectful of others' needs and desires was an important step in our evolution. In that regard, I h
by mannykannot 4y ago
There's a hypothesis that becoming relatively easy-going and respectful of others' needs and desires was an important step in our evolution. In that regard, I have seen this said: you can take a couple of hundred strangers and cram them into an airplane for twelve hours with no problem (mostly, I now have to add), but if you did this with chimpanzees it would soon become a bloodbath.
- polishdude20 4y agoYeah and it's because we have a whole world of context about the place we're packed into. We know what planes are, generally how they work, generally how air travel itself works.
- mannykannot 4y agoThis was only offered as an illustration of the hypothesis, and it's really up to the reader to decide, from their own knowledge and intuition about human nature, whether your explanation is the whole story. Would you argue that the cases of 'air rage' that we see are due to people not knowing what planes are, or not having a general understanding of how airplanes or air travel work? It is also the case that people involuntarily placed in close confinement for long periods quite often do not start fighting among themselves even when they have no clear understanding of what is going on or what the future holds.