On 5/20/22, Karl Semich <[email protected]> wrote: > After millions of years, cellular biology did not evolve a litany of > weapons. > > Rather, each species has one weapon. Antlers, poison. _only one_. > > This seems to be what worked. > > Personally, I'm imagining some kind of 'meta-virus': a lifeform that > produces many different kinds of weaponry. Like other horrible ideas, > this meta-virus would be a threat to every other lifeform. If it > succeeded, life would end as all ecosystems would die. > > So, every living thing in existence, at some point in its ancient > history, had to learn to eradicate things that eradicate everything > else, and protect things that don't.
I'm guessing that part of what happens here is that opposing groups actually neuter the weapons of overpowered threats. I'm not experienced in strategic conflict.
