@TheBastard That’s what I’m thinking. Looking at science and societal factors in relation to survival, technically, it’s ’‘wrong’’ to kill because as @keobooks says, we’re pack creatures and we need one another to live. Killing, in many aspects of what makes a culture and its societies stand would impede this growth, as pointed out by @TheBastard.
However I also believe that while we’re pack creatures, there’s a lot of individuality that serves to ironically shape a collective, and individual growth and maintenance must not be neglected either. Not that killing has necessarily everything to do with that. In fact it probably has little to do with it, since self preservation occurs with everyone just about every minute they live and feel some emotion. It’s a natural thing, while murder, with this idea, is not. (but one might see the self preservation issue as being linked to it, on an extremely primitive level I’m sure humans subscribed to at one early point or another)
A lot of societies have adapted with murder, as in, ways to deal with it. (justice and the like)
While I believe what @TheBastard says, and while I believe that death is ’‘regulated’’ by societies for an extreme lack of a better word, there must be some reason then, as to why murder occasionally happens…it’s scary to think that it might actually have some purpose when it comes to the Darwin like approach things seem to have.
I mean, murder actually happens a lot with people bound by the same cultures and ideals. So maybe it isn’t always technically ’‘wrong’’. But it’s damn scary. I refuse to believe there’s ever a reason to kill a child for example. Remaining strictly technical and putting emotions aside, we need them to continue the society, anyway.
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But the point remains. Killing is a stick in the wheels. Everyone’s prolly gonna think I’m a Nazi now, but I think that death between allies is an impediment to evolution, and this can be observed when comparing different countries together. Look at an advanced North American country where people are mostly free and safe, and compare it to a less developed country that knows tyranny like Cuba, or some place where people rip each others eyes out for not believing in the right thing. I know this sounds totally douchebag on my part, but when making the comparison I don’t think that the advent of technology or its lack thereof, evolution’s current main muscle, (in as much sense as I can make) can be denied when looking at many places and how much murder there is, or isn’t. Not much of a proof in a way, because I’m not a sociologist or…wtv trade you’d need to know these things. But that’s what I think when it comes to random murder with societal evolution and the thriving thereof, if you wanna call it that.