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People tend to think of violence as a detriment to productivity and advancement, but I think a lack of productivity is what causes violence. In order to 'evolve' past violence, things would have to be so perfect, so complete, that there would be nothing worth fighting over. And that would mean we would have no emotions, because everyone is jealous about something someone else has, or has experienced. If a man had ten wives, ten trillion dollars, ten sports cars, ten mansions, etc., he would still want something that someone else has. I think we'd have to live in vats, like in The Matrix; we would need to be physically incapable of harming other people.
Violence is also a way of life, a tool of survival. Even if we evolved past emotions, there would still be many logical reasons to kill someone, unless of course we lived in a utopia.
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