Comments on: Why do human beings kill each other? http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/28/why-do-human-beings-kill-each-other/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Vicki Baker http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/28/why-do-human-beings-kill-each-other/#comment-17357 Vicki Baker Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:26:40 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/28/why-do-human-beings-kill-each-other/#comment-17357 Is that real concern, Erich or just concern trolling? I suspect the latter! :-) Lord Biron's comment just tickled my funny bone, I guess. Perhaps I'm wrong in assuming that most of the people who comment here are not engaged in a daily life or death struggle for survival, but instead benefit a lot from cooperative networks. I wonder if how much we "know" about the efficacy of killing as a survival strategy comes from watching movies and tv shows, where violence is always the best and coolest answer to most problems? Since a lot of my genetic material comes from people who opted out of taking human life for personal or political reasons sometime in the 1500's, I guess I have a jaded view of the premise that killing is necessary for survival. Is that real concern, Erich or just concern trolling? I suspect the latter! :-)

Lord Biron’s comment just tickled my funny bone, I guess. Perhaps I’m wrong in assuming that most of the people who comment here are not engaged in a daily life or death struggle for survival, but instead benefit a lot from cooperative networks. I wonder if how much we “know” about the efficacy of killing as a survival strategy comes from watching movies and tv shows, where violence is always the best and coolest answer to most problems? Since a lot of my genetic material comes from people who opted out of taking human life for personal or political reasons sometime in the 1500’s, I guess I have a jaded view of the premise that killing is necessary for survival.

]]> By: Erich Vieth http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/28/why-do-human-beings-kill-each-other/#comment-17339 Erich Vieth Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:09:05 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/28/why-do-human-beings-kill-each-other/#comment-17339 Vicki: I read your comment with some concern. Please call me sometime. Don't visit. Just call. Vicki: I read your comment with some concern. Please call me sometime. Don’t visit. Just call.

]]> By: Vicki Baker http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/28/why-do-human-beings-kill-each-other/#comment-17336 Vicki Baker Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:20:17 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/28/why-do-human-beings-kill-each-other/#comment-17336 <blockquote>Perhaps someday we will evolve to a higher state and learn to supprese these traits,</blockquote> God, I hope so. It's such a pain having to clean these bloodstains out of the carpet all the time.

Perhaps someday we will evolve to a higher state and learn to supprese these traits,

God, I hope so. It’s such a pain having to clean these bloodstains out of the carpet all the time.

]]> By: Lord Biron http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/28/why-do-human-beings-kill-each-other/#comment-17314 Lord Biron Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:28:30 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/28/why-do-human-beings-kill-each-other/#comment-17314 Its human nature. We simply kill to survive. Its one of the most basic traits of our eveolution. Perhaps someday we will evolve to a higher state and learn to supprese these traits, but doubtful. Remember Flight or Fight. Its our basic way. Killing can be justified, denounced, condemned, praised, generalized, but always is the same... killing. Its human nature.

We simply kill to survive. Its one of the most basic traits of our eveolution.

Perhaps someday we will evolve to a higher state and learn to supprese these traits, but doubtful.

Remember Flight or Fight. Its our basic way.

Killing can be justified, denounced, condemned, praised, generalized, but always is the same… killing.

]]> By: Dan Klarmann http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/28/why-do-human-beings-kill-each-other/#comment-16476 Dan Klarmann Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:36:00 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/28/why-do-human-beings-kill-each-other/#comment-16476 Let's not forget that recent studies of chimps in the wild show that they also commit wars, sometimes even eliminating a competing tribe with comparable atrocities as done by man. War (focused amok mob violence) is not solely a shame of Man. Let’s not forget that recent studies of chimps in the wild show that they also commit wars, sometimes even eliminating a competing tribe with comparable atrocities as done by man.

War (focused amok mob violence) is not solely a shame of Man.

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