Why do men like to kill men? At times of war, many men smile in the anticipation of killing another

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  1. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    Only more 'tech' will give us less pollution, not more. Unless you want to somehow eliminate about 95% of the people now existing, and even that wouldn't work. Just the dead bodies would pollute the Earth so badly we would all die from disease in a year.
     
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    Thanks for the correction. Oh wait, you did not give one, you just ignorantly denied my claim and left me hanging.

    Quite the debate technique, for a dick wad. Are you this useless in a discussion all the time?

    Who decides if the minimum wage, for instance, or the minimum a person will get on the dole, if not governments and their manipulation of tax codes?

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    Ye issue was men killing men.

    We tend not to eat the people we kill.

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    Absolutely, but a warriors first duty is to save lives, not take them. Warriors are to protect first and serve us as killers last.

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    Do you think our selfish gene is pushing us collectively to fight so as to show our fitness?

    All other animals seem to put a challenge to themselves, migrations and what not. Almost a rite of passage.
    I think it has to do with a group stressing itself purposely.

    We seem to be slaved to our desire to be the fittest, which is what has made the human race so powerful.

    Being the most insecure animal on earth makes us fear too much and we seem to appease that fear with violence and killing.

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    Tech needs cash to seek solutions and most governments are not funding the research required to find solutions.

    We could reduce pollution tomorrow if we changed our ways but we are too slow to do so without actual legislation.

    I proposed some time ago that we should pump our human waste onto the land to have nature produce top soil instead of dumping it all into our water ways and polluting them. You might say that the idea was shat on.

    We do the cheapest thing and not the most profitable thing and our world is telling us we are stupid.

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    Any proof of mass child rape & murder by U.S. troops?
     
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    IMO it is the dominance of the reptilian brain that causes humans to kill each other. That, and the prevalence of religious dogma.
     
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    We came from a shrew, more or less, not a reptile.

    We have human brains.

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    Yes, I guess I've read too much of Carl Sagan. Many others have described part of the human brain as being reptilian. I'm going with those guys.
     
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    Plenty. You call them collateral damage, Your enemies call them mass murders. Everything is relative to one point of view.

    Beside I didn't mentionned child rapes, dont foist your fantasy on me please.
     
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    Your proof?
     
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    Most movies for men are, on the other side are chick flicks for the... chicks.
     
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    Warriors have always killed 'the other tribe'. It's an essential part of securing food/resources so that their own will survive. That IS saving lives.
     
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    But if your tribe eating depends upon killing members of a neighbouring tribe (who are hogging local resources), then that's what must happen.
     
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    History.

    The fact the the USA had mobile gallows in europe during WW2 to execute its own soldiers who were commiting murders and rapes demonstrate that american are just as human as the germans, japaneses and soviets.
     
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    More recent than that. We are all descendents of the rapacious barbarians who conquered the peaceful agrarians, killed the men and raped the women. Of course we are programmed to kill and rape. Those are the genes which survived.
     
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    So you have no proof to support your claim that American soldiers routinely murder children. That’s not your fault, because there is no proof.
     
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    Of course I've proof. Saipan, Okinawa, France, Belgium, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan... Plenty of proof. But none is so blind as the one refusing to see.
     
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    I can name geographic locations, too. Quebec, New Zealand, Lithuania, Morocco ...
     
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    Oh you're that ignorant of military history? That explains a lot!
     
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    It is a meaningless phrase. Like saying one computer is better than another. Idiocy.

    But if your comfy having the intelligentsia think your foolish -----

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    What does reptilian brain even mean?

    I do not have time for your link but what is supposed to be the main difference or reason for the comparison?

    Brains all work the same way and the only difference is the size and possibly the complexity of ours, although I have not seen where we are more complex than in other mammals.

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    My wife takes me to and enjoys the former.

    I do not agree with the notion that women like romantic movies over the action movies.

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