"Animal "play" isn't any sort of "scandal" -- we know that many young animals "play" by fighting with each other -- this is obviously good training for their ad

"Animal "play" isn't any sort of "scandal" -- we know that many young animals "play" by fighting with each other -- this is obviously good training for their adult lives. At the end of the day, all animal behavior evolved somehow and so self-interest must be involved, unless you want to bring some sort of creator god into the explanation. Like Graeber's distorted view of Apple's history, I suspect he knew very little of evolutionary biology.