I am an Anarchist. Not a "Libertarian" or a "Galtist" but an Anarchist.

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138. So, why do you think that it is in the natures of chimpanzees to go to war

but not in the nature of man? And what, exactly, is your evidence that war is not in man's nature?

And WHEN did we have that 40,000 years of communal culture? And what was the population of the planet during that time? Do you not think that maybe, just MAYBE, our lack of war for that period had more to do with low population density obviating the need to fight over resources than that violence is not within man's nature?

And why do you assume that the people that think that violence and war are part and parcel of the human experience are wrong when human beings have been going to war for 5500 years? They have evidence of large scale war in Syria in 3500 BC.

And still with the arrogant, patronizing tone. "It's not that you don't know, it's that so much of what you do know is wrong." Were you ruefully shaking your head with a pitying little smile on your lips as you wrote that?? *sigh* How hard it must be to be a towering intellectual such as yourself and having to deal with us mere plebeians. But you know, I would think a towering intellectual could manage to have a discussion without resorting to an ad hominem attack in his first response.

Look, I think you are full of shit. And pretty full of yourself, too. You want to present yourself as knowledgeable and wise and blah blah blah, but your first comment in this thread was an ad hominem attack, you formed assumptions about me with zero evidence and your arguments are, frankly, crap. You can throw around all the $10 words you want, if you are stringing them together to form sentences like "War is an artificial construct that we indoctrinate the tabula rasa of our children with because we were ourselves inculcated with this falsehood." then the only thing you are accomplishing is looking like a pseudo intellectual ass. Primarily because if you had ever had more than one kid, you would know that we don't have to write upon their blank slates the urge to do violence upon one another. Actually, it is pretty much the opposite. You spend all the first ten years telling them to STOP doing violence upon one another. Kids pretty much come programmed with territoriality and the urge to violently defend what is theirs. And since just about all OTHER animals also hit the ground the same way, it is not particularly surprising.

Or are we indoctrinating the tabula rasa's of the chimpanzee babies, too?? Jesus, man, you seriously need to get over yourself.