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Originally Posted by FelixP
... because everyone is jealous about something someone else has, or has experienced ....
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Except me, I'm the exception that proves the rule ... not joking.
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.... 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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Well, that would definitely suck ... I thrive on emotions.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
This is something that has to be done at the individual level. If pacifism can spread, war will become less common.
As for war, it's possible but there will always be ignorance and greed. Those are what you have to deal with.
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... I've had time to mule this over.
Can violence not exist at all? If we don't have the base animal instinct to fight, wont we recede into becoming docile? And then .. nothingness?
I think not. We call on those who we have broken down then mentally conditioned to shoot first ask questions later to police us. We do this because, in doing so, we are preparing for an enemy who is sadly always there. Your question is .. what if we were to spread peace to the other side, then there wouldn't be sides.... achieving this is hard, not impossible, but very,
very hard. Lot's of other things come into play ... irrational emotions such as anger and jealousy. Essentially making society to implode from the inside. Then the cycle begins again.
No, violence cannot be absent for any reason. We do not exist hence we are violent, more like we are violent hence we exist. It's an inbuilt base that enables and supplements sustainability to develop.