It is disturbing to realize that all humans alive today are the direct descendants of the most successful committers of murder, enslavement, rape and genocide, and all historical injustice is just the documented tail end of success and failure in primate evolutionary competition.
How so? In a society of defectors, the cooperators don't stand much of a chance. They become only stronger when they efficiently eliminate the defectors within their subgroup of cooperators. In a society of hawks, the doves can do very well, but in the role of domesticated cattle
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We evolved for a nomadic life in a tribe or clan where fighting between individuals was frequent and the murder rate high. 70-90% died before they turned 20. Fighting costs a lot of energy, and even if you won, injuries could make you die from infection, predators or the next guy
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Yes, and then we continued to evolve for sessile life in extremely large, cooperative and stable groups with long term planning and with violent conflict only happening at the frontiers between groups.
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