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13. Do you think it was at some point a necessity for survival?

Tue Mar 21, 2023, 09:30 AM

Mar 2023

(To dominate rather than cooperate?)

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Where does the Heart of Darkness come from? [View all] Scrivener7 Mar 2023 OP

we are a violent species. mopinko Mar 2023 #1

Yes, Putin is not really an exception historically Walleye Mar 2023 #3

Do you think it was at some point a necessity for survival? Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #13

When people get the upper hand they need to push other people around Walleye Mar 2023 #2

it's like w dogs- mopinko Mar 2023 #4

I agree with you on both points there Walleye Mar 2023 #6

well, evolutionary psychology posits mopinko Mar 2023 #12

I never thought of that. Nice. Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #15

Evolutionary psychology debunked cbabe Mar 2023 #26

Great article! Thank you. Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #30

good article. mopinko Mar 2023 #34

But is that changing? I'm thinking of the women at Abu Ghraib. Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #10

yes it is. mopinko Mar 2023 #17

True. For most of us. Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #8

i've given it some thought from time to time. lol mopinko Mar 2023 #21

Europe DID go through dreadful suffering for centuries in the middle ages. raging moderate Mar 2023 #14

Everything about European psychology does hark back to Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #16

And re-reading your post, just as violence goes from parent Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #22

Fear modrepub Mar 2023 #19

Of what, do you think? I know with Native Americans Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #20

Of Something Different modrepub Mar 2023 #24

I did not know this. And he certainly made a study of it. Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #27

Pretty simple orthoclad Mar 2023 #28