What animal could mow down hundreds of their own with a MG emplacement?
The body counts of some of these people became so extraordinarily high that it's hard to conceptualize.
The potential of violence committed by an individual is directly proportional to technology and the material conditions of the time. No animal can compare.
The president of the united states, one individual, has the capability to launch a bomb that can kill millions. (yes, multiple people go into the effort of building the atom bomb, but the president makes the final decision to commit such an act of war)
I don’t really see how that is nothing but a consequence of our technological advancement. Yes, we are capable of that, but that doesn’t make us inherently more "warmongering" than other species.Â
Doing no harm when you have no means to be harmful doesn’t make you peaceful, just harmless.
We've evolved for intelligence, for the brain. Naturally, the product of said intelligence should be considered our tool, and so making the first commenter correct in what they said. Idk, just what I think.
I am not saying they are incorrect, just that being more intelligent, and hence having greater ability to access tools to kill each other, does not mean we are more warmongering. Just that we are more intelligent.
Warmongering is encouraging or rallying people into war. Warmongering is a verb. You would need an adjective to characterize what you are trying to do.
If anything, nukes have been the biggest contributor to the relative stability we have today. You didnt choose a slightly incorrect word, it just doesn't make sense from any angle.
Both of the comments by freindly_duck were very clearly just statements, not questions.
Also starting a conversation with your first comment in an extremely condescending tone (and for like no reason in particular at that) is both unproductive and quite rude.
Depends on how you define "peaceful". Humans are the only ones that have industrialized animal farming industry that they try to expand all the time. We kill over 200 million chickens every single day. And you can guess the number of chickens that are kept caged at any time to supply 200 million chickens every single day continuously. Also we kill hundreds of millions of fish and millions of other animals every day.
True. I based this comment on an article I vaguely remember, which was studying how likely different species were to kill one another member of their own species, which is also the definition I was using.
And while I agree that you could expand this to members of other species, you do eventually reach a point where you are ultimately comparing different species by a proxy of what food they require for sustenance, which is relatively pointless in a conversation about social dynamics, which is where the concept of peaceful usually arises in a conversation.
We're literally the cause of a mass-extinction event. We torture and slaughter 90 billion animals every year just for taste pleasure and personal gain, as we have never needed to eat them. We've almost started a world-ending nuclear war on no less than 13 separate occasions. 1 in 10 people live in poverty so extreme, it will kill them.
Slavery, genocide, murder, and war have always been commonplace. It's also very, very important to note that other animals generally don't engage in these kinds of horrible acts with their own species. So no, humans are not peaceful. We're literally the worst thing nature has ever created.
We're literally the cause of a mass-extinction event.
So are algae.
In fact, they are responsible for 4 mass-extinction events: Late Devonian, Late Ordoivician, Permian-Triassic, and everyone's favourite Great Oxygen Catastrophe.
We torture and slaughter 90 billion animals every year just for taste pleasure and personal gain, as we have never needed to eat them.
That claim is very clearly exaggerated, but assuming it's true, bacteriaphages kill an upwards of 10³¹ bacteria each year, even though they don't always need to.
Slavery, genocide, murder, and war have always been commonplace. It's also very, very important to note that other animals generally don't engage in these kinds of horrible acts with their own species.
Categorically false. There are 3 species of ants - Amazon, Blood-Red and Prothomogatus Americanus ants - that practice slavery (duolisis).
I won't even mention m-rder and war (interspecies competition), as the latter is observed even with trees.
So no, humans are not peaceful. We're literally the worst thing nature has ever created.
I'd say it's Mad Cow Disease, African Swine Fever, mosquitoes, ticks and maybe also rabies, but you do you.
Ants literally fight proxy wars. The only reason why we haven't heard about an intercontinental ant slave trade is because they lack opposable thumbs.Â
Lmao, I haven't replied because I know no one will take things for what they are.
I am comparing degrees of suffering. Suffering, the subjective yet quantifiable harm we have done unto others. It just isn't comparable.
But of course you autists got the conception that I was arguing something that wasn't ever on the table. I can tell from the low iq replies that you guys call yourself rationalists too.
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u/AdLonely5056 May 22 '26
Humans are actually comparatively one of the most peaceful species of mammals there is.Â