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It should also be said that <i>other species are violent, too!</i>
There's this weird thing in our culture... we feel compelled to depict ourselves as murdering savages, and all other creatures as saintly creatures who are "in tune with nature". This simply isn't so.
For example, I was reading just yesterday that if worker bees find that a female bee other than the queen has had children, they'll eat them! Since children of the queen are more genetically similar to the worker bees than the child in question, it's in their genetic best interest.
I'm sure there are lots of other examples, too. Like someone said above, violence is sometimes pro-survival. We fight for what's in our own best interest.
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