All just additional evidense that we are still basically cave people with nuclear weapons.
The issue is, how do we do more of the latter? To say it never happens and/or it's hopeless is obviously false and contributes nothing.
I.e. we don’t need to be constantly paranoid strangers we run into won’t resolve the same inability to trust dilemma they have with us, by being first to violence.
I.e. People could have been generally peace loving, not prone to violence in their familiar communities, but still situationally more provoked beyond those communities. Both more peaceful & more violent isn’t a contradiction.
Is there any strong evidence at all supporting that hypothesis? Besides lower population density = less interaction/violence I don’t think there is anything that would let us to conclude that “pre-civilization” people were less violent.
Amazingly though, you found it enough of a contribution to spend your time in reply.
Let me quote from the original article:
> "This suggests that the newcomers exterminated the men in the farming and hunter-gatherer populations they encountered, while incorporating the surviving women into their community"
They "incorporated" the women, uh huh...
> In other places, “it’s a process of almost no mixture with the previous people, who just disappear”
So in places where the women were more resistant to "incorporation" they were killed along with the men.
Oh, no they weren't all killed, they "just disappear". We do love our euphemisms don't we 8-/
I don't want to be a detractor from having happy fantasies about this, but it seems to me they're pretty much like every human culture: the one who kills all the others is in charge.
While this may have been a beneficial survival strategy in prehistory, overcoming this is on what the future survival of our species depends. That's the idea I'm trying to contribute.
Sorry this wasn't helpful enough for you... I'll try harder next time...
I thought the way the Brits treated the Maori wasn't entirely positive?
Our standards are getting a bit too low.
What is in ritual isn't literal.
I guess some find Nazi salutes acceptable since it doesn’t literally mean “genocide people with gas” but rituals have meaning to others. I think if my ancestors ate people then I wouldn’t be celebrating that every day.
But who knows, maybe you’re cool with the Nazi salute.
Or perhaps it’s a timing thing. When the Nazis are as historical as the Māoris are today, the salute will once-again become acceptable.