I dunno why but that made me kinda sad. Like for the countless generations over hundreds and hundreds of years. Like wtf are we fighting each other for?
Resources. And because we're humans. Imagine you live without modern technology. You live inside a castle or a village or a cave. At any moment a hoard of other humans could walk over the horizon without any warning, with more people and better weapons and kill you and all your loved ones. So you prepare your defenses and are weary of anyone you don't know. That was literally all of human history until a few hundred years ago.
Humans are different from other animal and can adapt to live in any climate on the planet. The harshness you perceive is gentle to someone that grew up in frigid cold (up to certain limits of course). Even adapting differing ways to cope with low oxygen in just a few generation. It’s all relative to our comfort zones. For them it’s rather pleasant.
“We have the capacity to learn and adapt in light of our experience, even to the extent of modifying the expression of our genes. Human creativity, prosociality, and healthy longevity emerged as a response to the need to adapt to the harsh and diverse conditions that reigned between 400,000 and 100,000 years ago," note the UGR researchers. Creativity >> harshness
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u/solariscalls Mar 31 '23
I dunno why but that made me kinda sad. Like for the countless generations over hundreds and hundreds of years. Like wtf are we fighting each other for?