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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
killer whales will toss seals around like toys, til they are dead and no fun no more. brutal stuff.
in insect woprld, ant colonies wage war on each other.
hornets will wage war on each other.
primates like chimps and gorillas wage war on opposite tribes, killing all the babies and men and raping the female chimps.
It fucked Jane Goodall up when she finally saw this happen.
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Yes, but keep this in mind, the worst carnage we see in nature is generally reserved for inter-species combat, not self-inflicted wounds. To be sure, humans can be cruel to animals, to plants, to insects, but the most hurtful reality is the pains and sufferings which humans can inflict on each other. This is NOT natural, this is not the way which Evolution works towards human beings. We do not survive, evolutionarily speaking, by internalized divisions, but inter-human warfare, rather, through cooperation, through societal working together as family, as friends, as community. This is what has separated us from all other life on Earth, that we seem to fight ourselves more visciously than we fight other forms of life, and yet the opposite is necessary for our assured survival, that we stop fighting ourselves and seek a balance in nature. This is the moral of the Garden of Eden and the Fall of Mankind narratives in the Genesis exegesis. Even if the stories are not literally true, the convey this deeper moral, that cooperation versus division is the solution to human survival on this planet. If there is a God(s) in heaven, His/Her goal for mankind is to get along, not to fight more and more apart. I believe that we can do it. Don't let the TV fool you, mankind is a depressing lot to be sure, but there are bright spots which shine brighter than a Quasar to our benefit. Even in a warzone, you find the MOST positive examples of charity, of altruism, of deep and connective human love and understanding. We fight our own demons, yes, but we win more than we lose. Shit stinks more than roses, and one piece of shit in a beautiful Garden will get all the attention, but the Garden remains beautiful all the same once you get over that one piece of shit that doesn't really smell all that bad in the scheme of things