[extropy-chat] War Is Easy To Explain - Peace is Not

[Jef Allbright]

On 3/14/07, gts <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Surely you agree that if the world population doubled tomorrow, it would
> not follow that humans had become half as war-like.

Gordon, the point is not that frequency of violence is a function of
population size, but that evolutionary and developmental processes
that have contributed to larger sustainable systems of human
organization tend to exploit principles of cooperative advantage,
which are antithetical to violent behavior.

- Jef