Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!columbia!topaz!josh From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion,net.flame Subject: Re: A Question! Message-ID: <860@topaz.ARPA> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 07:22:34 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.860 Posted: Mon Mar 4 07:22:34 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 04:21:04 EST References: <776@decwrl.UUCP> <597@pyuxd.UUCP> <501@whuxl.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 12 Xref: watmath net.politics:7962 net.religion:5867 net.flame:8685 > tim sevener whuxl!orb > Other species also do not have the peculiar institution of war: as ethologists > have pointed out, while most species have established forms of agression > for mating and so forth, a part of these forms is to *stop before murder*. > It would not do the species much good if fighting over mates led to the > decimation of the protagonists. The murder rate among many animals (not just Black Widows, I mean higher primates such as the Hamadryas babboon) are several times as high as human rates. The "benevolent nature" myth is just that. --JoSH