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You’re being deliberately disingenuous, twisting my words and their intended meanings. Not a good way to start a conversation.Is it natural behavior for humans to sexually abuse children at will using the excuse that it is the nature of humans?
Is it natural behavior for humans to rape at will using the excuse that it is the nature of humans?
Is it natural behavior for humans to murder other humans using the excuse that it is the nature of humans?
Is it natural behavior for humans to torture other humans using the excuse that it is the nature of humans?
Penguins might just be nature’s most perverted animals
I think it is unnatural human behavior and not in the nature of humans that have freewill to choose not to harm other humans.
Roseann
I neither stated or implied that any abhorrent act committed is excusable because of natural instincts. Only that those behaviors are very often the realizations of natural drives within individuals. Of course they are responsible for their actions, but that isn’t what we’re discussing.
And as for your cute NY Post article on animal behavior, it only serves to support what I’ve already said.
Facts are that we, homo sapiens, come from a very, very long line of thieves, murderers, rapists and worse. Of course, a hundred thousand years ago none of those things were considered abhorrent. There was no “abhorrent” back then. And although we have advanced tremendously since that time, we still carry much of those primitive natural tendencies.
Taken from an article written by R. Douglas Fields, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor at the Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Maryland. Maybe it will give you reason to reconsider the logic of what you think of as “unnatural” behavior.
A new study of 1,024 mammal species has determined which animals are the most vicious killers of their own kind. Killer whales perhaps? Pit bulls maybe? For the answer, just look in the mirror.
The analysis shows that deaths caused by other members of the same species is responsible for 0.3 percent of all deaths on average for all mammals, but the rate of lethal violence among Homo sapiens is 7 times higher. Together with our primate ancestors, we stand out as aberrations in our penchant to kill our own kind.
The reasons can be traced back to our primate ancestors, which are exceptionally violent creatures, killing each other at a rate of 2.3 percent like we do. These data indicate that the incessant repetition throughout recorded history and in prehistoric times of murder and war among all cultures of human beings has its roots in our evolutionary stalk.
“Step back and view our species objectively from the outside, the way a zoologist would carefully observe any other animal, or see us the way every other creature perceives human beings. The brutal reality could not be more evident or more horrifying. We are the most relentless yet oblivious killers on Earth.
Violence exists in the animal world, of course, but on a far different scale. Carnivores kill for food; we kill our family members, our children, our parents, our spouses, our brothers and sisters, our cousins and in-laws. We kill strangers. We kill people who are different from us, in appearance, beliefs, race, and social status ....
Humans Are Genetically Predisposed to Kill Each Other | Psychology Today