Comment on Why did modern humans replace the Neanderthals? The key might lie in our social structures
JoMomma@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Humans are violent and were willing to kill the Neanderthals
Comment on Why did modern humans replace the Neanderthals? The key might lie in our social structures
JoMomma@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Humans are violent and were willing to kill the Neanderthals
remotelove@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Violence is baked into nature. Packs of animals will defend each other in a fight. However, some animals in a pack will kill off weaker members of the same pack just for breeding rights. Nature is brutal and it’s the most efficient killers that may win out. (That isn’t always true, of course.)
The article does try and make a connection with violence and the types of weapons used, though. (Humans had bows and neanderthals had spears.)
My point is that violence was likely part of the problem, but not the entire one.
JoMomma@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Problem or solution?
remotelove@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
As in: Did I describe a problem or solution? I don’t view nature as a problem, so I have no solution.
What I described is, what is. I can’t justify violence, but I also know it may be unavoidable. Honestly, the only solution I know of to the human problem is just be cool to one another. (I need to follow my own advice more, TBH.)
I personally have mixed views on the nature of humanity, but that is a conversation for another day.