> Many animals practice rather peaceful dating. Not OP but occasionally I come across videos of 'animals behaving really badly' so I did a (very specific and e

> Many animals practice rather peaceful dating. Not OP but occasionally I come across videos of 'animals behaving really badly' so I did a (very specific and extreme) quick search below. I think we all know about male lions killing cubs that don't belong to them, dolphin's dark side, etc... https://start.duckduckgo.com/?q=murderers+and+rapists+among+the+animal+kingdom&ia=web https://start.duckduckgo.com/?q=murderers+and+rapists+among+... > I don't think we have any concrete evidence about our grand-grand fathers. I remember getting into a discussion with someone about religion. This person hated religion. I'm not religious. He blamed religion for all the atrocities in the world. I wasn't defending religion but I like to look at both sides and said... Maybe it's because of religion that we haven't already destroyed ourselves. At least with Christian (New Testament) religion (the only one I'm passably familiar with), there are a set of (divine) rules to live by[0]: No killing, no adultery, stop stealing, stop lying, no false testimony, stop envying/coveting what is not yours... etc. ** Please, I don't want to get into a religious argument. ** But, what if... religion was _invented_ by man because man himself was so murdery and rapey as OP (afpx) stated. That the only way to control him/her was by inventing a power greater than man himself. Indoctrinate man at some core level so that these tendencies could be managed somehow. Because even with an all-seeing God, even with a divine set of rules, even with the promise of an after-life... believers broke those "divine" rules (as they do today) - often in the name of religion itself. All of this is supposition for discussion (not argument), please:-) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments?useskin=vector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments?useskin=vecto...