Why do you think human beings are the only ones who are capable of killing they're own species?

Answer 1

What are you talking about? Every other animal and insect out there kills their own species, and some of them do it all the time during sex as well, using the carcases of their mates to grow the young in!

Answer 2

I assume that you mean that humans are able to kill off their entire species, not that humans are able to kill humans on a lesser scale. The reason I assume so is that other animals certainly kill individuals of their own kind: rats, wolves, spiders, cats...

However, I'm not sure that humans do have the ability to inflict a complete genocide of all human life. Nothing close to such an event has ever been deliberately triggered. The World Wars killed perhaps a hundred million altogether. Communist tyrannies throughout the world have killed perhaps another hundred million in the name of human equality. A nuclear war would probably kill a hundred million people.

But a hundred million is one thing, and six billion (with a B) is something else.

Humans are more likely to accidentally do something that kills that many people, and one of those things is fossil fuel depletion. There's talk about something called Peak Oil, a euphemism for "right now" (the year 2006), after which the global supply of energy resources (petroleum, natural gas) will begin drying up.

The lessening supplies of fuel will cause the prices to be bid up higher than struggling homeowners and businesses can pay, which means that homes will go unheated in the winter and truckers can no longer afford to bring goods to the WalMart or Target store near you.

Food will stay on the farm, until the government sends national guard or regular army troops to cart it away. Do you suppose that they will cart it to your nearby grocery store? I don't.

Once the transport systems for goods are down, I expect that the starving will begin worldwide. Privileged people will still be able to buy food and nice things, but everybody else will suffer and, eventually, die.

Answer 3

Human beings are no more capable, when it comes to killing their own species, than compared to any other species. I'm hoping you simply just frased your question wrong. If you meant why do we do it more, well then it would be because of the fact that we are one of the most densely populated species on this planet, therefore, our instencts lead us to compete for things such as mates, food etc. But but since scientists claim that the main difference between humans and animals (which by the way i disagree on this statement) is that humans have the ability to reason. Yet, we stll have murderers, rapeists, child molestors etc, so how can this be used to differenciate us from them...it simply cant. Every species has its bad eggs, but it doesnt mean that the whole speces is bad or more prone to malicious actions, thats juat our way to try and make sense of this world where we have no control of what is to happen.

Answer 4

Human beings are not the only ones who are capable of killing they're own specie. There have been noted cases of wars and murder among chimpanzees and other such primates. Also, the alpha males of many species attack one another for mating or terretorial reasons, which in many a case leads to death. Interestingly enough, the offsprings in some species get eaten by their parents after birth. As brutal this all sounds, murder and war is very common among the living species.

Answer 5

Oh, we're not. Chimpanzees, for instance, have been seen waging war on other chimp tribes. One group will slaughter all the members of another group. It's not pretty- without weapons, it's hard to kill a chimp.

The males of some species kill each other during dominance or mating displays, sometimes on purpose. The males of some species will also kill the young of a female to bring her back into heat. The mothers in many species will hurt anything that threatens their young, and I'm sure that they wouldn't pause just because it was another lion or whatever. Goldfish will eat their babies, and gerbils might, too. Nature is a pretty brutal place.

Answer 6

Well, actually they're not. Chimpanzees and bonobos are two primate species I know of that kill other members of their species, usually for territory, resources, or to secure a mate. They will kill a male, then kill the children of the females so that they will stop nursing and become able to breed more quickly. Polar bears being edged out of their habitat by global warming are on the edge of starvation and are resorting to canniballism. Mother animals will sometimes kill their young, either because they cannot care for them, or in the case of some primates, seem to lose interest. It's just that our reasons seem more complex, though they can all probably be reduced to a need for territory, resources, or status which are all either primary survival needs, or secondary in that they attract a mate or cement alliances. It's just that we define a threat to survival a bit differently...we won't literally die from an affair's discovery, and failing to maintain status in a gang, or failure to protect your territory by reacting with violence if you confront the person your mate has been cheating with (or that you suspect they've been cheating with), will not truly reduce our fitness to survive. But we're hardwired to feel that way, and our modern lives present us with these stimuli so very very often. And I'm afraid we'll have to make do with training our children to use that extra layer of reasoning ability to rein themselves in, evolution moves slowly.

Answer 7

Not only are humans NOT the only species capable of killing their own kind, we are not even the only species to MURDER our own kind. Different species of monkeys/chimps from a given 'tribe' have actually been filmed stalking and murdering those of another tribe. Not for territory, not for sex, not for food; by all appearances it was 'just for the hell of it'. Even DOLPHINS have been filmed in very aggressive confrontation with other dolphins for no apparent reason. They've also been filmed in groups, 'kidnapping' female dolphins and then sexually assaulting/harassing them!!

The natural world is not some utopia that we humans should strive to emulate. WAKE UP!

Answer 8

Obsolutely not, were not the only ones. We have a plethora of ways of killing our own species and, really, wiping ourselves out. But for all the other species on earth competition for survival will drive any animal to turn on their own so that they can survive. Animals like bears, snakes and birds have been know to ( and documented) eat their own species and/or offspring. When it comes to territory, food and other basic needs anything is possible.

We humans are like any other animal. For us war is a prime example of this type of barbaric drive to survive and the need to kill our own of just to do it.

Didn't Kane kill Able?

Answer 9

I have sympathy for someone who could be so sorely mislead.
Please whoever you got this information from, Do No Listen To Anything Else they tell you.
Really, you think humans are the only species on the planet of killing their own?
Is the question incomplete, is the thought incomplete?

Answer 10

Wow, yeah, gotta wonder what else the folks who convinced you of that one told you!!!

Just look at happy little kitties: a new male entering the picture will slaughter every single kitten just so the mothers immediately become... receptive... to his desires. And if you want to think male cats are scum, what about those mothers? Could you see your five children slaughtered and then ONLY THINK ABOUT how much you WANT SEX RIGHT NOW and with that sexy male over there who happens to be covered with the blood of your dead children???

What beasts we must be, no, wait, that's the happy little kitties who are the beasts. Very few humans at all would do the same.

By the way, there is film evidence for over 150 species engaging in rape and nearly that many engaging in homosexual sex.