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There are two main arguments supporting the idea that aggression and violence are biological and therefore inevitable in our world. In their essay Genetic Seeds of Warfare: Evolution, Nationalism and Patriotism, Paul Shaw and Wong Yuwa, in a darwinistic approach to human nature , argue that aggression is natural in the animal

Some resources are so valuable and are becoming so rare that countries will fight over them. Examples of these resources include gas, oil and even water. Since these resources are pretty much immobile and can’t be moved it means that countries have to take complete control of the area in which these resources are located. If this area

Lee looks at this through a very different approach. Based on a study conducted by Jane Goodall in which she would give a surplus of bananas to a group of chimpanzees for eight years, we can see that apes are not as peaceful as they would appear. Once Goodall stopped providing the bananas, the chimps began to split into competing groups. The groups would fight, raid, and kill each other in order to preserve available resources. Lee argues that this consequence prove that violence is not a human condition. Goodall’s study proves that hominids fight in times when they need to preserve resources, and fight in tactical manners in order to protect their communities.

As far back in history as we can go, humans have been in a fight for survival. There have been battles with gigantic mammoths, soldiers charging the front line with swords drawn or teachers witnessing neighbors

Is genocide, or in the case of Ender's Game where an entire alien race is annihilated, xenocide, ever justified? Was the xenocide of the buggers inevitable?

Humans have never been known as the kindest in the animal kingdom and we seemed to have quite the bloodthirsty tendencies. War would be in the news on a daily basis. No one could agree on anything, and when we got too frustrated we went straight for the throat. The only thing we seemed to know

Another example of humanity’s struggle with violence theme happened when Kino killed a man in self-defense. Kino was caring and friendly; he would never intently mean to harm or kill anyone unless someone was bringing harm to him and the things that he loved. One night a “dark one” on the path attacked Kino as he was walking toward his brush hut. The “dark one” wanted Kino’s pearl and would do anything to get it. In return, Kino also wanted the pearl and would protect it at all cost. The following quote demonstrated the violent actions that resulted due to this attack, “He heard the rush, got his knife out and lunged at one dark figure and felt his knife go home” (59). Kino’s violent actions towards the dark figure revealed the theme of violence. This dark figure, who attacked, Kino wanted his most valuable possession and Kino was not going to give his pearl up for any reason. Kino protected what was his, his pearl. Kino felt he attacked the “dark one” in self-defense, but the way the town’s people thought it was different. Violence, once

Apr 2, 2013 ) because of its connections to other conspiracy theories it brings them all together into one factual concise statement. These Lacerta files from this Terran Reptilian is giving facts, science, and the religions behind it all and why everything is piecing together also describing her people's history and the wars that have gone on and the cold war that has been going on for 75 years, mainly over our resources such as copper which they use for advanced technologies, we haven't even had the chance to theorize about, which provides evidence and concepts to support her claims. Those technologies keep them hidden from our sight, but they do still abduct people from time to time and the lucky ones to still live are considered psychopaths afterward because our people easily dismiss what they deem

Any war would put strain on even the attacking species, as it would require a hefty number of their able bodied men to focus on fighting, rather than hunting and gathering. Although they came out the victors, it is very likely that they suffered some loss as well. During the war, the remainder of the species, who would have wanted to be away from the action for safety, would have been strained depending on women and weaker men to provide the necessary food and protection, with the most able-bodied now gone to war. The species would not have taken this decision to go to war lightly, especially if they were more advanced in logical ability, such as the Homo Sapiens were. This is further evidence that the attacks did not come from them. Although the Homo Neanderthalensis would have also taken consideration into the attacks, they were both less logical, as well as more desperate. With both of the rival species more advance, the Homo Neanderthalensis were falling behind, and at risk of attack from the two more advanced branches of the Homo Heidelbergensis family tree. Seeing that the Homo Gul Akeer were the most advanced, and possessing special abilities, it would have benefitted them the most to attack and advance their own kind by simply stealing it from their more highly evolved counter-parts rather than waiting for their Great Leap to catch up, while the other two would continuously grow more advanced in the meantime. With the recent rapid and continuous developments the Homo Sapiens were undergoing, they really had no need to go through such drastic measures, as the Homo Neanderthalensis would have had, with risk of falling ever further

Throughout much of the history of civilizations, states have declared war for land, valuables, and resources. In the course of the mid-20th century and the 21st century, ascendant super powers have invaded foreign lands for resources such as oil, and weapons companies have profited from the ongoing cycle of war these super powers promote. The populations of these states have been fed lies vis-à-vis the media; propagandizing these “rogue nations” and promoting an ‘Us vs. Them’ mentality, to garner support for these armed conflicts. War is our primordial instinct, as humans are territorial and aggressive. That is our nature, and by looking at events in our history, one may see that war appears to be timeless and inevitable.

This made it okay to kill the Neanderthals. The Homo sapiens believed it was okay to kill the Neanderthals since they were not fully human, and considered them more as monster than anything else. They did not believe that they could have any emotions towards each

What makes us unique? What makes us human? These are complex questions to which humans have struggled to find an adequate answer, even after the course of hundreds of years. I personally believe there are many reasons and factors as to why humans today are in control of the planet, with the most defining feature of our species being collective learning, empowered by the creation of symbolic language.

In the book Our Kind Dr. Harris mentions the theory of evolution by Charles Darwin. He went to great details about our closest living relative the chimpanzees, and how their survival was base on they will to fight. Therefore, our willingness to fight wars and kill each other for nonsense reasons is simply our nature.

Humans are thought to be the dominant species. They believe that humans should manage the earth, all other life forms have some sort of instrumental value for human use.

I think humans are truly not in control of their own lives. If we were, everyone would be doing whatever they wanted to do and that would be “savage.” Life is a game and sometimes we need to be taught how to play properly by a simple example of humanity. Dr. Powell proclaimed that you would find more violence in the city in one day then you ever would in the the forest and I agree. Humans are the only species that kill each other for reasons other than survival.