Competition, a hindrance to peace?

Question

Competition allows conflicting interests to bring out the best products, bring out a leader in a group, OK... BUT:

Competition is rooted in our instincts for food, territory, opposite sex, material possessions and difference (morphology, skin color, language, beliefs...). Look at the biosphere: almost every single species fight for survival, some small percentage find symbiosis. Is there really a hope for peace if our instincts drive us against each others? If our internal wiring recognize threats where there might just be a chance for pacific coexistence? Can we survive as a species? Can we thrive? Can we... evolve?

Is it too difficult a question?

Answer 1

Your analysis is flawed because you haven't considered the epistemes that Darwin was using when he wrote "On the Origens of Species"

Capitalism was triumphing over monarchism, and everyone--including Adam Smith--lauded competition.

Biologists are now trying to break away from this episteme and look and structural cooperation within and between species...

Answer 2

A brilliant question!
The evil is in "Possession".....it is called as "Parigrah" in prakrit /sanskrit/hindi language (indian origin).
If you detach yourself from the worldly accumulation and understand that this body is "only a special purpose vehicle", but I am the Soul...the aatma....the eternal, understanding would bring peace and teach you the purpose of living.
The key to evolution is not outside us, it is within us......