Have Humans Really Progressed?

[HelpMe]

i guess that's a yes.

would i be wrong in calling that a battle or simple skirmish?

why would you call the chimp vs baboon campaigns prolonged?because they always happen?they why not say lions and hyenas are at war too.

hypercitionary.com(better because it's hyper)

1. a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious; "the war on poverty"; "the war against crime"
2. [n] the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war"
3. [n] an active struggle between competing entities; "a price war"; "a war of wits"; "diplomatic warfare"
4. [n] a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply; "war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring"

none of which imply.

my point most obviously(psh, or so i thought) was that man has created war?

 

[Ceridwen018]

HelpMe,

As Mr. Spinkles pointed out, chimps and baboons fight each other over territory, and resources, amongst other things. I belive that fits in nicely with, "a concerted campaign to end something which in injurious."

Your point is obviously moot.

 

[painted wolf]

yup, war is quite common ammong us animals. Chimps in particular are quite brutal about it, killing all members of the opposing 'tribe'. (adoption into a chimp tribe of outside members is apparently rare)

as for the age of Cromagnon, true it was shorter. My point is not that tecnology is bad, just that our fielty to one another has not kept up with our tecnology. Many 'primitive' societies were more ballanced when it came to careing for one another. In particular the sharing of resources such as food. If you were hungry you asked for help from your nieghbors and vice versa. You may still have been hungry at the end of the day, but everyone was hungry with you. If someone did not have a place to sleep, you shared your lodge with them.

These things were easier to take care of in a primitive society because it was smaller. It seems to me that in todays society with so many people it is hard for some to make the connection with those that are in need and feel compelled to help them.

It just seems to me that we, as a society, if we really wanted to could fix many of the problems that face us today. Homelessness is not 'inevitable', it is a societies choice. The same goes for Malnutrition and lack of health care. All problems that dispite our vast tecnology and resources we still have. It bothers me that in a nation where the average life expectancy is in the 80's we still have such high numbers of children growing up malnurished.

Thus I don't think we have progressed... IMHO

wa:do