(September 29, 2021 at 6:24 pm)WinterHold Wrote:(September 29, 2021 at 6:15 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Competition in life will always exist, even in humans. But that does not mean in any context humans always have to default to violence or oppression.
Fighting is not competition. When a police officer shoots a gangster it is not competition.
When America butchers Afghanies for 20 years straight it is not competition.
When ISIS blows civilians it is not competition.
It's a regulation of combat: "if you bomb me for bombing you first; I will butcher your people for 20 years straight"-American Foreign Policy.
And with all your bluster, and far too much of humanity for that matter, your game of one upmanship based on labels that hardly put a dent in our planet's history, much less that of our universe, is laughable. Proclaim all you wish that you are the victim. Everyone in the world does that, and that is not where understanding or empathy overlap.