There are two different perspectives when it comes to the nature of human beings. There is one, which argues that humans are inherently good, and there is the other, which argues that humans are inherently evil. The latter, for some reason, has become an unquestioned principle among many evolutionary biologists.
It is a tendency that began some time ago. When the Australian-born anthropologist Raymond Dart discovered the first australopithecine fossil in 1924, he went on to describe these early hominids as:
“Confirmed killers: carnivorous creatures that seized living quarries by violence, battered them to death, tore apart their broken bodies, dismembered them limb from limb, slaking their ravenous thirst with the hot blood of the victims and greedily devouring living writhing flesh.”
But according to David Barash, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, this idea is a dangerous one.
Find out his reason over at Aeon.
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War is diplomacy by other means.
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"It's fun to do bad things" - Latarian Milton
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I prefer to say that humanity is selfish and the human story trends toward tragedy.
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Give them Fortnite and they'll be jello like the rest of us.
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