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Originally Posted by warrenly
Oh, come on, people would kill each other with sharpened sticks. It's in their nature.
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I don't know if you are being facetious or cheeky, but I happen to agree very strongly with your remark.
Humans are animals. We have many or most of the same animal urges and impulses that other "higher-level" mammals do. One of the them is to fight over mates, our young, our tribles, food (and other resources), and territory.
We haven't and won't outgrow those urges. It's unrealistic to think that so-called social progress has or will lead us, as a species, to be able to suppress them on a wide scale, under all circumstances, and indefinitely.
Cool Hand