Franz vander Walls (horrors Bruno a Waloon!) has stated that Chimp society are 5-17 times more violent the human societies, on the whole. Reason? We monkies use speech to communicate and cooperate with each other more than Chimps. We are about the only species that consistently like to feed each other, strange as this seems.
-----Original Message----- From: meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thu, Jan 15, 2015 2:47 pm Subject: Re: Democracy On 1/15/2015 9:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > I would have said by nature. Apes does not sent his fellows in gas chambers. But they do. Sometimes chimpanzees gang up on member of their pack and kill him. > people misbehave in a large part due to civilisation, which reacts naturally in > developing those software at a different level, which is slow adaptation. Civilisation is the extension of tribal relations to all the people of a city (or state). Humans tend to have natural tribal relations with a few dozen people. To have those extended to hundreds or thousands requires culture, laws, and government. So it is not that civilisation causes misbehavior, it's that it redefines the boundaries within which fraternal behavior is mandated. Steven Pinker's book "The Better Angels of Our Nature" argues that this civilizing influence has been very successful in reducing misbehavior. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
