Reply #70: It's probably that 'free will' thing.

[Hugin]

We have what we need, but, we insist on screwing it up.

Not to spin off into Theology, but, I recently encountered an explanation of why Humans are so dangerous.

It's because we don't have any claws or fangs... Tigers know instinctively other Tigers are deadly and therefore they avoid ticking off each other. We primates never learned that lesson. There is little injury from thumping around on each other with our soft pink hands. In fact some of us enjoy it... However, we also have the ability to escalate things way beyond those games. So, we have this attraction to destruction while at the same time lacking the instinctive ability to see the danger in it.

That's why I give our species the life expectancy of an unrefrigerated jar of mayonnaise.

Sorry for the philosophical excursion, but, y'all sent me into a moment of Navel Research.