Tbh, I used that phrasing specifically because you were snippy about someone else making a claim based on their own experience and I was trying to prod you about the evidence you’re using.
Good point. Yeah, and I was kinda rushing through my replies in general at that point, much of that due to… well.
When people kill each other “for no reason,” there’s often still a reason (though not an excuse)- territory in the case of gang or murder of romantic partners…
Sure, I get it. Thing is, we’re talking about species-wide behaviors. Not personal vendettas, and so forth. We naked apes are absolutely captured upon that shizzle, without question.
What I said still holds perfectly true. And–
if we know that other animals kill in scenarios where it hurts them and we don’t actually commonly kill each other for no reason.
Like I said above, animals can be ‘excessive killers’ for a variety of known, documented reasons. Not to mention, we naked apes absolutely DO commonly kill each other for bullshit reasons, unless perhaps you’re a NAZI (etc) apologist…? In which case it’s VASTLY more terrible, egregious, and anti-life as we know it.
If I understand correctly, the classic dictator approach is to appoint relatively competent underlings in positions of power, as long as they aren’t real threats, with most of their aggression spent punching down or squabbling amongst themselves.
By contrast, the idea here seems to be in appointing bumbling nitwits at said positions, such that after they make fools of themselves, they can then be blamed for this or that and ejected like a used diaper.