War & Human Nature: Crash Course World History 204
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Be
Through selective breeding we humans can eliminate -war loving- individuals without killing them but by preventing them from succeeding in leaving more offspring. By monitoring humans we can determine who has aggressive tendencies and determine if those tendencies were instilled in them by abusive or neglectful parenting. Most people are rendered emotionally broken by their primary care giver while still infants or toddlers. Therefore we as a society must assure every future individual receives full time nurturing without upsets; upsets even as minor as mommy leaving for hours to go to a job. Infants and toddlers suffer immensely by the absence of mommy (or whomever they are most use to) whether they are capable of understanding that she is returning eventually or not.
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Through selective breeding we humans can eliminate -war loving- individuals without killing them but by preventing them from succeeding in leaving more offspring. By monitoring humans we can determine who has aggressive tendencies and determine if those tendencies were instilled in them by abusive or neglectful parenting. Most people are rendered emotionally broken by their primary care giver while still infants or toddlers. Therefore we as a society must assure every future individual receives full time nurturing without upsets; upsets even as minor as mommy leaving for hours to go to a job. Infants and toddlers suffer immensely by the absence of mommy (or whomever they are most use to) whether they are capable of understanding that she is returning eventually or not.
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Keith
I've read several comments below wherein some contend that warfare is just the natural outgrowth of the human predatory instinct. I would advise those people to go read a biology text book. Animal predation is an interspecies activity in which predators kill prey for food. Human conflict and warfare, on the other hand, is an intra-species activity in which humans kill one another, en masse, in numbers that is seen almost nowhere else in the animal kingdom. Very few so-called 'lower-order animals' kill within their own species for any reason, and certainly do not do so with the same enthusiasm that humans do.
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I've read several comments below wherein some contend that warfare is just the natural outgrowth of the human predatory instinct. I would advise those people to go read a biology text book. Animal predation is an interspecies activity in which predators kill prey for food. Human conflict and warfare, on the other hand, is an intra-species activity in which humans kill one another, en masse, in numbers that is seen almost nowhere else in the animal kingdom. Very few so-called 'lower-order animals' kill within their own species for any reason, and certainly do not do so with the same enthusiasm that humans do.
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anthony
This podcast is the perfect example of why serious subjects should not be treated flipently e. g. he says that wars happen because young men are warlike. If this were so, why do young men have to be told that weapons of mass destruction are aimed at their country and about to be launched or that women and children are being or about to be murdered and raped to get them to go to war and why do they have to be concriptaed to get them to go. Don't forget, old men start wars, young men have to fight them.
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This podcast is the perfect example of why serious subjects should not be treated flipently e. g. he says that wars happen because young men are warlike. If this were so, why do young men have to be told that weapons of mass destruction are aimed at their country and about to be launched or that women and children are being or about to be murdered and raped to get them to go to war and why do they have to be concriptaed to get them to go. Don't forget, old men start wars, young men have to fight them.
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Genathing
Nietzsche was referring to debate, not murder. As a philosopher who argued for the relativistic and paradigmatic nature of morals (your God is dead and you have killed him) I doubt he-d agree that there is a single human nature. In fact, he believed in just one overwhelming force to the universe: the will to power. But that isn-t exactly expressed in overwhelming dominance, just in expression. The slave and the master both express a will to power in their respective roles.
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Nietzsche was referring to debate, not murder. As a philosopher who argued for the relativistic and paradigmatic nature of morals (your God is dead and you have killed him) I doubt he-d agree that there is a single human nature. In fact, he believed in just one overwhelming force to the universe: the will to power. But that isn-t exactly expressed in overwhelming dominance, just in expression. The slave and the master both express a will to power in their respective roles.
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Kay
-I feld then as i feel now.
That the politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselfs, instead of organizing nothing better then legalized mass murder-
-WW1 veteran Harry Patch
-War itself is, of course, a form of madness. It's hardly a civilized persuit. It's amazing how whe spend so mutch time inventing divices to kill each other and so little time working on how to achieve piece-
- Walter Cronkite
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-I feld then as i feel now.
That the politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselfs, instead of organizing nothing better then legalized mass murder-
-WW1 veteran Harry Patch
-War itself is, of course, a form of madness. It's hardly a civilized persuit. It's amazing how whe spend so mutch time inventing divices to kill each other and so little time working on how to achieve piece-
- Walter Cronkite
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IowanLawman
5: 35 Genuine question; with that reasoning then wouldn't the phrase -We must secure the existence of our people. - from Adolf Hitler, fall in line with all historical reasons for warfare? War, as you said, had been meant for gathering resources to ensure the survival of a kin group. So in Hitler's case, excluding the morality of everything, Anschluss and Lebensraum strategies fits into the category
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5: 35 Genuine question; with that reasoning then wouldn't the phrase -We must secure the existence of our people. - from Adolf Hitler, fall in line with all historical reasons for warfare? War, as you said, had been meant for gathering resources to ensure the survival of a kin group. So in Hitler's case, excluding the morality of everything, Anschluss and Lebensraum strategies fits into the category
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Michael
War in and of itself is what has evolved. The rabble convinced to fight for the gain and profit of the few. The General sat and the lines on the map. However, most of our greatest leaps in technology have come from the desire to eliminate those other people not like us, whomever we or they may be. Excellent vid.
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War in and of itself is what has evolved. The rabble convinced to fight for the gain and profit of the few. The General sat and the lines on the map. However, most of our greatest leaps in technology have come from the desire to eliminate those other people not like us, whomever we or they may be. Excellent vid.
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Eli
I like to think of humans as a computer program and a humans top priority is survival of themselves, but other factors such as our high intelligence, and the fact we are highly social changes how we behave to war and affects our decisions
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I like to think of humans as a computer program and a humans top priority is survival of themselves, but other factors such as our high intelligence, and the fact we are highly social changes how we behave to war and affects our decisions
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Gamer
I'm not saying you shouldn't get money for making these, but I am saying, -if I donate on subbable then crash course is not free to -everyone- as I just spent money on it-. Food for thought.
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I'm not saying you shouldn't get money for making these, but I am saying, -if I donate on subbable then crash course is not free to -everyone- as I just spent money on it-. Food for thought.
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Jason
Marines aren-t soldiers, there marines. Soldiers are in an army, and marines are in an amphibious fighting force. It-s like calling someone in the Air Force a soldier instead of an airmen.
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Marines aren-t soldiers, there marines. Soldiers are in an army, and marines are in an amphibious fighting force. It-s like calling someone in the Air Force a soldier instead of an airmen.
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