Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Some would argue that man isn’t the only animal that kills its own species. Meerkats and Dolphins have been known to take the life of their own kind for no discernable reason. Man on the other hand has a history of wholesale genocide of its own kind. We slaughter each other for land and riches but we also kill just to kill, for the simple sport of extinguishing another life.

I argue that as we species man is psychopathic in it need to kill. I completely understand the reasoning of animals being hunted for nourishment since we are omnivores that require vegetable and animal nutrients. Man is the only animal the kills for trophies, kills for the sport of killing. No other animal that I am aware of has serial killers, that hunt and kill their own kind just because they have some sense of entitlement that their existence is more valuable than that of the one or many that they deem disposable.

We are psychopathic in our turn any technology into a means of controlling or killing each other. First man had clubs and its presumable that those first men killed each other with those blunt objects that were intended to use for hunting and providing for the tribe. Next step in evolution was the discovery of flint blades a valuable tool but also an implement of killing. The advancement of simple tools has always turned into those instruments being turned into ways to kill something or someone. Blades became swords, arrows became spears (or maybe that was the other way around), fire was turned into a chemical reaction that became gunpowder and we all know where that went. The advent of atomic energy wasn’t to provide clean power to the masses it was harnessed to kill masses.

When will our homicidal nature cease? We dream of traveling beyond this planet but in the front of our minds presume that we will encounter another race we may have to extinguish. We assume that just because we are a waring genocidal race that all other must be the same.

Damn this is dark, so I will end this with lets use our eminence power of reason the move forward, stop designing new ways to kill each other, use that same intellect as a species to make this world one that is for everyone and everything.