Talk:Ethics/Nonkilling/Biology

references section
It is difficult to relate the references section to the main text of the page. Is the original text available in a format that included inline citations to the references? --JWSchmidt 15:52, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

You are right. This article will be edited in the next couple of months in book format (also under GFDL). At that point we will revise all courses at the School of Nonkilling Studies. If you wish, I can send you the original MsWord file to work with it. Please let me know.--Cgnk

If you need robotic or regex help, just shout. Hillgentleman | //\\ |Talk 16:42, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Evolution of human societies
Very relevant topic. The behavioral traits selfishness and altruism are two faces of the same coin [the species] that help the survival of the species.Huamns are probably evolving towards altruistic societies. Evolution of altruistic societies if true must have biological basis. Peaceful coexistence and cooperative living apparently are probable directions for the existence and evolution of human societies. dmrsekhar@yahoo.com. 117.199.112.201 03:47, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

What about killing?
I find this section unsatisfying. There needs to be at least some acknowledgement of the arguments presented in Azar Gat's War or indeed Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, that intra-species conflict (and killing) in humans extends in an unbroken line back into the mists of time. After all, if we accept that humans have always been omnivorous, and therefore hunters, it is not such a great leap of the imagination to imagine clubs, axes and spears turned to the service of intra- and inter-group oppression. IIRC, Gat claims that ~1 in 25 neolithic humans died of intra-species violence, and that in fact modern warfare, with its spectacular mediatized elements, represents a reduction in intra-species violence.