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As a species, we dominate our environment, to the extent that all other competing species lay at our mercy. We can destroy all of them at a whim!
Where's the compromise when; One side wants gun bans One side wants open borders One side wants higher taxes One side wants single payer healthcare
originally posted by: underwerks
a reply to: DBCowboy
Where's the compromise when; One side wants gun bans One side wants open borders One side wants higher taxes One side wants single payer healthcare
I think a big part of the problem is you believing what your side tells you about the other side.
originally posted by: Bhadhidar
a reply to: YouSir
Then you doom us all to eventual extinction.
If, as you say “Humanity is not ready for non-territorialism...perhaps we never will be...so attempting to push against the grain of human nature will always fail...“, if we can never successfully overcome that which divides us, we are doomed.
The key can be found in your own statement; this “territorialism” is an emotional reaction generated by one of the earliest portions of our brains. That portion was vital to our survival, eons ago, when we were a young species attempting to carve an environmental niche for ourselves.
But that niche has been established. As a species, we dominate our environment, to the extent that all other competing species lay at our mercy. We can destroy all of them at a whim!
It is far past time to surpass those basic attitudes toward each other, just as our intellect has surpassed those primal drives. An infant may be excused if he/she soils its diaper, it is their “nature”. As adults we do our best not to soil ourselves.
We must always push against our nature because it is the only way we will ever develop.
You only succeed if you make the attempt.
If you never try, you’ve already failed.