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I often wonder if when humans started relying on agriculture for sustenance if then our inbuilt drive to kill as apex predators was transmuted into violent tendencies toward our own species.
Interesting take. We needed to find ways to get along to survive in the tribe so violence toward each other was deadly. As a farmer, I don’t need to rely on many others. In fact, too many others becomes problematic as theft becomes more of a problem. The issue is that we were sort of forced into farming as a lot of the animals we hunted went extinct. Idk if the absence of hunting is the cause though. It could just simply be that our ancestors had no reason to hoard the meat from a hunt because it’ll go bad and you had no way to preserve the food.