(April 24, 2016 at 12:42 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I am of the opinion that conflict shaped our species. Can you think of a stronger spur to mental evolution than a species being its own hunter and prey?
Unfortunately evolution does not care who wins when it comes to ideas, the problem with our species is we are stuck on ideas. No it isn't that some ideas are better than others, just that our species didn't come with a collective pragmatic side that fostered settling disputes with neutral controls. We do a better job in the west on that sure, but we only got that way slowly overriding our evolutionary tribalism.
All life competes for resources unfortunately. BUT the good thing is WHEN we want to as a species, we can manage our differences to a more civil degree, but the problem is, can we?
