If according to our scholars, man evolved from animals why is it we suppress the urge to kill,in America?

Question

Keep in mind that they also expouse complete seperation of church and state, so forget the "Thou shall not kill" thing. It seems to me if you carry this train of thought to it's conclusion, our laws are written by the weak to protect the weak, which goes against every natuaral instinct in the animal world that we suposedly came from.

People......please, without religion there is no such thing as morality and compassion.Animals kill their weak, old, sick and even their young to protect their species. Come on......THINK

Answer 1

Your answer is contained in that one little word: "from".
You are correct in assuming that we are still basically animals. Having rules to live by lets us be more than animals. It takes very little education and very little parenting for an animal to know the law of the jungle, which is merely Survive at all costs. But we're more than that. Human reproduction- just like animal reproduction- is a way to ensure genetic survival. I survive and I mature, but to survive beyond my natural lifetime, I have to make a copy of myself. Once that copy can live on its own, I have no other responsibility toward it. That's all it takes to be an animal. But we want more than that. We want to love and to be loved. So we make rules for ourselves and we learn how to respect one another by not killing, not stealing and so forth.
Or we stay animals. Animals don't read, write or communicate with any depth, so that isn't you.
And here is a point about the separation of church and state. In the US, it is unconstitutional to force any particular religion on anyone or to allow the doctrines of any particular religion to influence our government. But morality isn't unconstitutional. So in the US, we have the great advantage of being able to extract morality from religion and to appreciate human values in their own light. The basis of our value system is rights and respect for all.
After all, houses are built from material that comes from the earth, so why not just live in dirt? Bread is made from the seeds of plants that are basically the same as grass plants, so why not just eat grass? And language is made from grunts and groans, so why talk or write when you could just grunt?
A human zygote is initially not at all different from a frog zygote. We all start life as tadpoles. It's not a matter of where we come from so much as a matter of where we go and what we develop ourselves into.
You might always feel like killing some of the people you meet, but it's a much bigger challenge and a much greater opportunity for personal growth if you let them live. Hopefully, they return the favor.

Answer 2

A few things.
1) Bone up on science, I know, being "religious" means never having to think, but if you are going to ask a question, at least have SOME knowledge of the subject.
2) Man is an animal. We are not rocks, nor amoebas, nor virii (despite what Mr. Anderson says), nor plants. What's left:____. Congradulations, here's your cookie.
3) Since we are mammals (oops...gave away the answer), we share a common ancestry with other mammals, and being primates we share a common ancestor with other primates, and being a third species of chimpanzee, we share a common ancestor with chimps. I know, in your crazed little world I just boke so many laws and rules, but get over it.
4) Animals also have do the same things we do, like protect the weak.
5) Grammer and spelling is your friend, even if you want remain an ignorant tool, you can impress all the other idiots with how you can make the magic symbols look all nice and pretty.

Answer 3

We in the West, which means America, tend to depend upon use of our brain alone in seeking to comprehend life, and to study what the nature of that life is. This is fine, in so far as it goes, but it is also very limited in the fact that ones brain is unable to perceive either the MIND realm, or the Spiritual realm, or any the many regions in between.

In other words, the brain processes in linear form, while life operates in a multi-dimensional grouping of realities, only one of which is physical.

One resists the capacity to kill others in order to limit the number of others who would kill oneself. This is simple learned logic. Only those consider or engage in killing who, due to their own psychological need for self-destructive behavior, are compelled to do so as their reason is set aside by their MINDs.

To assume or infer that the capacity to kill requires an animal linkage is silly. That Man is evolved is a factual reality that has nothing to do with animals, except to the intellectually curious who are limited in Knowledge regarding Reality.

The civilizing factor that restrains human beings from engaging in actions that are harmful is an automatic self-protective restraint based on reason, an attribute of ones higher MIND. This is the result of Spiritual evolution... and this is entirely an Esoteric process fully within the human being. Animals do not have awakened within them this process, and thus, their actions are to be judged by the instinctual necessities of their environment.

To assume beliefs relative to human beings based on observations of animals, or a belief that human beings have evolved from animals [for which there is, at best, a flawed assumption] is to play with thinking which has no purpose but thinking.

What I am saying here is for the end days of cogitation of those who want to spend a lifetime studying that which provides them with a wonderful world of speculative thinking, serving to move humanity forward half an inch.... while humanity has already moved a mile.

Answer 4

For one thing, our society couldn't exist if we ran around killing each other all the time. Other animals don't generally run around killing members of their own species either. There are some exceptions, but overall it's not a good survival strategy. The more violent among us (and them) have, to some extent, been weeded out of the gene pool, one way or another, over time.

Answer 5

I believe that when humans evolved, we gained more brain power to assess things like logic and compassion. However that is not enough and that is why we also have laws preventing our primal urge to kill. People still kill people--we just prevent it with our laws that came from our increased knowledge, logic, and compassion.

Answer 6

Forgetting about religion and other silliness, humans have the ability to reason, and to understand the concept of morality. We have the advantage of not having to act on our impulses alone. It separates us (well, most of us) from the lesser animals.

Answer 7

goliathnt,
thank you for supressing your urge to kill

1) your assumption that all animals possess the urge to kill
is inaccurate
2) your assumption that a "we" exists in America, is inaccurate
3) your assumption that scholars can be lumped into a single espousing group, is inaccurate

4) laws are not written by the weak
5) animalistic nature is not, by definition, violent

Answer 8

because we dont want psychos going around killing other people.

Answer 9

As you say, it is because we "evolved"...