| Now back to the topic at hand, is it a jungle out there in our human world? Must humans live by the same standards as do wild animals, in a "dog eat dog" world?
Non domestic animals have no safty net. They must use their own skills and talents to survive, once they are old enough to leave the protection the mother. They are mostly self responsible for what happens to them, good or bad. However not in full control, as luck would have it, if they are in the wrong place at the wrong moment they could become supper for another preditor.
They have two basic responsiblities of self survivial. To avoid getting ate by some other animal, and to hunt for some other living thing to eat so it will not experience hungar. Those motivations leave little room for the evolution of compassion.
Some animals live in herds or social groups, find protection in numbers. They can also hunt together using teamwork to capture their food.
So in nature we see both socialism and capitalism being demonstrated. The lone wolf and the wolf pack organization. But even in herds or packs you still can see evidence of the "survival of the fittest" being demonstrated, especailly when it comes to mating season.
The question is, should human culture use the "law of the jungle" as our standard, or do we have the intelligence and the imagination to upgrade our social system to a alternitive or "better" means - by incooperating group survival into our plans, rather then just personal survival and personal responsiblity as our objective? In other words - we could evolve with the concepts of providing safety nets for the weaker members of the pack, instead of allowing them to be e-lemon-ated for being unfit to make the grade.
Any comments? I will explore this idea futher later in another post. |