I do believe that we are evolving. There are a lot of people who
don't want war and don't agress against their nieghbors. The ones
who still do cause most of the trouble in the world. My hope is
that someday the peace loving people will predominate and the
bully/warriors will be seen as pathological.
??? I think it's hard to say it a species given......how about thePart of what you, SJ, are saying illustrates my point, that those who
Inuit? the Zapotec? the Tahitians? the Ladahki? These are old
societies, and have for many years chosen peace over war, beginning
in their personal lives within their own spheres, and in some cases
carrying a lack of willingness to be aggressive to the point of
declining to defend themselves. Whole societies/cultures have been
decimated because of a refusal to be violent. So while it may be
that if the planet lasts long enough that all these people are wiped
out, and we actually lose whatever it is that causes some of us,
individually and culturally, to seek a peaceful outcome to conflicts,
it doesn't seem to me to be a 'given' that we are a warring species.
Many of the old matriarchial societies practiced peaceful existence
and searched for peaceful solutions.
So maybe it's not that we humans are a warring species, but rather
that we're able to learn a 'skill', or coping methodology, that seems
to serve us well, whether peaceful or aggressive.
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