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Originally Posted by monkey hanger
there must be something in our DNA that prohibits this or something more deeper.
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It goes back to the primordial soup days when we first crawled out & still wet behind the lugs, something bigger & uglier had crawled out before us & was eating everything else that followed.
Those of us with a shifty & naturally mistrustful oulook on those things bigger than us, especially if they have lots of teeth, fur & claws learnt early on these things were best avoided & scuttled off in the oposite direction to the sounds of growls & unmerciful screams.
We quickly learnt about the benefits of fire, clunking great clubs & pointy stick for our betterment & further evolution, right up to the point of apex predator & all round yobbling. Then we got civilised, our natural propensity for mayhem, destruction & general fondness towards casual violence sort of ebbed & we began to trust "people", there began the slippery slope of humanity.
But deepseated within each one of us, some stronger, some weaker is the faint glimmer of racial memory, the throwback to the time of teeth, claws & fur. Those of us with a better developed sense of shifty distrustfulness tend to project this on the world & people around us enabling our inherent sense of self preservation, while the less fortunes, well ..... they happily toddle off towards the ripping teeth, jaws, claws & fur to be disembowled & etten in a violent frenzy of brutality by the beasties they'd forgotten to run away from.
Taken from the dissertation from (Prof Emeritus) Dave W Williams "Uni of life & hard knocks" 1965 - to present