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Originally Posted by Brian W
There is an old joke or truism in the Mennonite culture that might be applicable here; what is the first thing a new Mennonite community does? it hires a Lutheran to be the police man!
Humanity did not learn how to cooperate in family and group. What humanity learned was the need to drive out those who did not fit in so that the larger group could function and survive.
I fear and believe that if we ever do begin the exploration of space that it will be a great deal more like 'Avatar' than 'Star Trek'
Brian
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Well, Brian,
Your beliefs are founded on a very strong historical and factual evidence.
Such behaviour was essential and absolutely necessary for humans to survive in the first place. And it is not only the speciality of human species..
Now, whether such hard-wiring of our brains is good for survival in the future, as humans are becoming the dominant species on Earth and the Darwinian evolution in the classical sense is no more, is to be seen.
Historically, it can be proven that the behaviour can be modified, especially because it seems that humans are social animals in a first place - so other urges we have can be controlled (by laws and culture) and sublimed.