y wars n all??????
2006-07-13 16:59:56 · 12 answers · asked by ???????? 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Not sure what you mean by that - but here's something to think about:
Have you ever seen a cat play with a mouse?
Hamsters are cannibalistic.
Male lions eat their young so they won't have competition.
Ants have vicious wars between themselves.
and many more, so it's not just man - it's just nature.
2006-07-13 17:04:52 · answer #1 · answered by candrv 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are referring to man as in humankind, I think one of the reasons we developed "badly" is because of our intelligence and our capacity to develop a sense of community.
For example, look at our capacity for war. Many other species will fight among themselves- just watch any nature documentary. Of course, most of these creatures will stop fighting once dominance has been established, and the scale of fighting will typically be limited to a few indivduals.
Humans are different. We have the ability to develop weapons which change fighting from a gradual, intimate process to an immediate, impersonal encounter. For example, if I am fighting someone with my fists, I can slowly get the upper hand, see them in pain, see them submitting, and then stop beating them.
If I use a gun rather than fists, the fight doesn't progress slowly. I just pull the trigger, and an instant later the person is dead. I don't have a chance to "pull back" once I have taught them a lesson. With a weapon, it is all or nothing.
What's worse, my capacity to develop an ideology and have a sense of kinship with others like me makes it easy to motivate me to kill on a mass scale. An influential leader can easily convince me that another group of humans are actually evil, believe in stange and unacceptable things, and need to be killed before they kill my group. This makes it possible for me to kill other humans who don't pose any kind of direct threat- they become a dangerous "other" in my mind, worthy only of being killed.
That's not to say intelligence or sense of community are bad things. Those attributes also allow us to develop higher standards of living, change our environments, and cooperate with our neighbors. It's just that most of the things that make us "human" have the capacity to make us very good OR very bad.
2006-07-14 00:18:10 · answer #2 · answered by timm1776 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably the same reason u still have nipples, women will continue civilization with
sperm banks & cloning.Men, become
haermaphrodite and evolole to be the new must have pet. Like ponies dolphines
kittens and Rabbits.
2006-07-14 00:21:57 · answer #3 · answered by purplewitch83 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey dont choon may lani..da ous made a one two faulty number punch on the number crunch and waaied for tha bunny on lunch time...when they got back they were amazed at da outies skill for gettin betty so day gave the boss a chance!
2006-07-14 00:02:41 · answer #4 · answered by KaizerSose 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If other creatures had that kind of technology they'd be just as bad. Remember, we may be human but we're still animals.
2006-07-14 00:04:39 · answer #5 · answered by synchronicity915 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
watch a lion eating a zebra on Discovery channel
2006-07-14 00:01:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who said we did? Sometimes violence is the only answer, just no one wants to admit it.
2006-07-14 00:01:21 · answer #7 · answered by psycmikev 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because "man" has been generally led by "men", when they DO think, we all know what they think with.
2006-07-14 00:03:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are territorial. Animals fight all the time for land. They have claws and teeth. We have guns, bombs, and nukes.
2006-07-14 00:01:35 · answer #9 · answered by SirCornman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok to tell you the truth women are on the same level no matter what stories you hear... because we all sin and all sin is equal no matter what...
and yah
2006-07-14 00:21:00 · answer #10 · answered by word 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋