centuries ago we were hunting animals and drowning would-be witches. Now we're killing our innocent fellow human beings for unjustified reasons. E.g. current israeli-Hezbu-allah war. Why can't we evolve into civilised human beings. why don't we care that we are killing housands of people every day.
2006-08-15 08:41:57 · 43 answers · asked by smart_alec_dude 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
no matter how evolved, man is still an animal
2006-08-15 08:46:07 · answer #1 · answered by Campbell Gramma 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Our evolution has been going on for an immeasurable amount of time .During this process,man,being no different from any other animal,has been capable of committing barbarous acts on others because it's his instinct to do so.Civilization is a somewhat new idea of self protection that we've tried to work towards for a short while but it's entirely against these natural instincts.Perhaps there will be an entirely civilized world someday,but I'm afraid it's still eons away in the future.
2006-08-15 09:07:49 · answer #2 · answered by morasice17 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know some people hate when you bring religion into it, but I'm gonna... a little. People were born sinners. Everyone sins. So, if we got rid of 80% of people as one person suggested before me, are we really getting rid of the "bad people?" We all hold that title. Inevitably those 80% would be replaced with people of our new society. There will never be civilized human beings... realistically we're not capable of it. Its no coincidence the same themes have been replayed numerous times in history. In those ways we haven't evolved, but as a civilization we have made other advances in technology, sexual equality, etc. We do the best we can. And what do you mean by killing thousands of people everyday? Do you mean murder's murdering people or something else?
2006-08-15 08:52:08 · answer #3 · answered by gravytrain036 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are exaggerating. Thousands of people DID NOT DIE as a result of the middle east crisis. About 800 lenanese were killed & 150 israelis.
In the WWI (1914-1918), 57,000 soldiers were killed ON ONE DAY ALONE in the battle of the somme. In the WW2, 75,000 were killed by 1 atomic bomb alone in Hiroshima. Nowadays wars take fewer lives and peace is restored much quicker than in the past. In a way, we have evolved in that we kill fewer people in wars today. But we still have to work to eliminate war.
2006-08-15 08:48:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm glad we're not hunting animals for a living any more. Instead, I surf the web for eight hours a day, cash a big check, and hit Food Lion on the way home. Is that evolved? Who cares! I couldn't be happier with my A/C and a beer.
2006-08-15 08:48:37 · answer #5 · answered by VTGunz 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The answer is we are evolving. Evolution takes millennia, and we're going through the most critical phase: the phase where we have the ability to destroy our world but not the moral control and maturity to stop ourselves from doing so. Perhaps the question is: will we allow ourselves to evolve further? The jury's still out.
2006-08-15 08:48:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution is the long run, the long long run. We are constantly evolvling but not necessarily morally better. We simply adapt better to the circumstances surrounding us and if they change drastically so will we and if not we will perish. But to see real changes on the evolutionary scale you should at least use 100,000 years or measure just before and after a drastic change.
2006-08-15 08:50:03 · answer #7 · answered by groovusy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
governments only teach us what we know, rather than enough to make us what we could be maybe??
that would also make their jobs harder if everyone had a major on politics, psychology and sociology when they left school at 16 instead of only the ones that stayed on until 21 or 25??
personally i think you should be taught more life skills and more about yourself in school, if u understand yourself better then you are not going to be scared of differences in others as much
2006-08-15 08:50:05 · answer #8 · answered by tony h 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know am am constantly evolving for the better of me and those around me. Lots of people are, but some people are devolving back to ways we used to be, warring over stupid things
2006-08-15 08:50:14 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "fight or flight" response that worked when we had to run away from wild animals in order to survive is probably not the best response for us anymore. We've evolved in many ways, and we've definitely evolved our lifestyles, but our brain is still doing stupid stuff like smacking our computers when they don't work, or bombing a country we don't like.
We need a better stress response.
2006-08-15 08:49:34 · answer #10 · answered by cleeps 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nope. If anything, we are devolving. Humanity is getting dumber and losing any semblance of respect or regard for one another. Pretty soon, we will devolve to the point where we will no longer have opposable thumbs. Or pinky toes.
2006-08-15 08:48:11 · answer #11 · answered by badkitty1969 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋