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you had me here, and I would love to read more about that. > seems to point to humans being, naturally, on the more violent end of the spectrum. I read Agner
by DyslexicAtheist 3y ago
you had me here, and I would love to read more about that.
> seems to point to humans being, naturally, on the more violent end of the spectrum.
I read Agner Fog's work on this topic (https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0128.pdf https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0128.pdf) but I always lumped humanity in with other animals and attributed our numbers of violent casualties to our weapons. But maybe we are really more viscous and violent on this spectrum. I wonder though would other primates be equally prone to it if they had the tools (and same disease of consciousness).
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> maybe we are really more viscous and violent on this spectrum To my knowledge, the two species with genocidal tendencies are humans and chimpanzees [1]. The drive for not only defeating but thoroughly eliminating an adversary appears to be, at least in modern biology, unique. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War