Re: Birdbrain: "Damned dirty apes"

On Jul 1, 11:18 pm, Vend <ven...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 1 Lug, 21:09, Jason Spaceman <notrea...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

And remember, if you disagree with Birdnow and reply to him, it means your
obsessed with him. . .

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So, we are now just one ape among many. Does it surprise us that our young
people act like animals, when we are telling them that they are just one of
many beasts?

Non-human apes are less intraspecies aggressive than humans.

What nonsense! Humans are far less aggressive towards other members of
their own species than any other ape. That's one of the reasons why we
can live in enormous conurbations, and why it is possible for me to
walk down a street in Beijing or New York without much risk of being
attacked. The image we get from the popular media is very distorted,
and most of us do not live our lives in constant risk of violence.

A chimp which moves into the territory of another group of chimps runs
a very high risk of savage attack. Male orangs are fiercely
territorial, and if they encounter another male in their territory
will quite literally fight to the death to defend it.

Paradoxically, it's the fact that we are not aggressive towards other
members of our own species that allows us to build huge populations
capable of warfare. Even so, for most of human history warfare was a
ritualized activity involving a small proportion of the population.

RF

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