“Humans are naturally violent—peace is the artificial state”
Agree
- Evolution favored aggressive tribes
- History is mostly warfare
- Violence erupts when society breaks
- Competition breeds conflict
- Primal instincts never disappeared
Disagree
- Most humans never commit violence
- Cooperation is our evolutionary advantage
- Violence comes from systems not nature
- Peaceful societies prove otherwise
- Culture shapes behavior more than biology
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