In a world of animals it's only the most ruthless who survive. It's been proven time and time again. The repercussions for those who don't fight is a hollow existence. I have read the articles about animals using simple tools to make their tasks easier. I realize that all animals have the ability to reason; at least to some degree. Humans are the only animals that can reason to such a degree; in the same way that cheetahs are the fastest runners, and that giraffes can reach higher than any other.
The sad truth is, that those of our ancestor, that weren't violent aren't really our ancestors because they were killed by the violent ones. So it's human nature (all of the animal's world actually) to kill and exploit the other guy. There's little we can do about it. My dream is to find an occupation that enables me to live away from it all and not follow the media. The only point I was trying to make is that we have developed technologies due to our incredibly superior intellectual abilities and capacities. I realize the aggression and emotional, psychological displays are observed often in other species, but no other species has the capability to understand calculus, no matter how we tried to have them understand.
Humans and animals have the same biological demands, but the difference between humans and animals is the fact that we have the capacity to demolish mountains, destroy the world by pressing a single button, bend our genetic code, alter the biological functions of our bodies originally intended by nature, and more. No other animal is capable of this. Do you see cows building guns? Do you see chimps erecting skyscrapers?
At the end of the day when I looked at things like rape or genocide up close they never lacked humanity; on the other hand, they were usually tremendously human acts that revealed the depth of the connections between people and their human agency, and no matter how much I think about it, there's nothing more meaningful than that spark of agency, that will and intent perhaps more animal than human yet something I'd throw away my humanity for in a second.
If we are, it's because people sit around pissing and moaning about how terrible things are without doing anything. The world doesn't change overnight, so don't expect to wake up one day to rainbows shooting out of people's asses. If you want to make the world a better place then find one problem that you as an individual can actually help with and apply yourself. You don't demand the world's problems be fixed, you go out and offer to help fix them.
The sad truth is, that those of our ancestor, that weren't violent aren't really our ancestors because they were killed by the violent ones. So it's human nature (all of the animal's world actually) to kill and exploit the other guy. There's little we can do about it. My dream is to find an occupation that enables me to live away from it all and not follow the media. The only point I was trying to make is that we have developed technologies due to our incredibly superior intellectual abilities and capacities. I realize the aggression and emotional, psychological displays are observed often in other species, but no other species has the capability to understand calculus, no matter how we tried to have them understand.
Humans and animals have the same biological demands, but the difference between humans and animals is the fact that we have the capacity to demolish mountains, destroy the world by pressing a single button, bend our genetic code, alter the biological functions of our bodies originally intended by nature, and more. No other animal is capable of this. Do you see cows building guns? Do you see chimps erecting skyscrapers?
At the end of the day when I looked at things like rape or genocide up close they never lacked humanity; on the other hand, they were usually tremendously human acts that revealed the depth of the connections between people and their human agency, and no matter how much I think about it, there's nothing more meaningful than that spark of agency, that will and intent perhaps more animal than human yet something I'd throw away my humanity for in a second.
If we are, it's because people sit around pissing and moaning about how terrible things are without doing anything. The world doesn't change overnight, so don't expect to wake up one day to rainbows shooting out of people's asses. If you want to make the world a better place then find one problem that you as an individual can actually help with and apply yourself. You don't demand the world's problems be fixed, you go out and offer to help fix them.
