Darwin documentary on channel 5?

Question

last night Darwin had spoken about the cruelty of how ants lay eggs inside their victims and then paralyse them so that the young can eat them alive. It got me thinking, what would he make of the way humans treat animal's across the world, as it is advertised every where on the net e.g. W.S.P.A, some is quite painful to look at - how can a human act in such a way and see it as okay?

Any thoughts

Answer 1

Are we missing the point. There is no missing link. WE ARE APES. Very voracious, unforgiving and parasitic. All life is perpetual and parasitic. But we have no choice other than to succeed at the demise of the next man. It's how we advance. It's why we evolved ego's and emotions. After evolving at the top of the food chain, we had to pit our selves against each other in order to carry on advancing. Egos and emotions are very important. THE REASON WE CAN'T ALL SUBSCRIBE TO DARWINISM IS BECAUSE WE WOULD ALL TURN INTO A BUNCH OF SOCIOPATHS WHO WOULD STOP ADVANCING. Do you also believe that people who have massive egos and who are very emotional lose the ability to face this gruesome truth, as they have to far to fall.

Answer 2

The first Law of Survival, is To Eat, or to Be Eaten...

Life on earth is not for the squeamish!

Answer 3

I suspect you mean a wasp laying eggs in a victim.  The wasp isn't cruel at all.  It is simply doing what its ancestors have done to survive.  Humans are the only animal that I know of that has some compassion, though maybe some other animals might display it at times, such as apes, whales, and dolphins.  Humans can be cruel but they can be kind as well.  It is generally considered cruel when a human makes an animal suffer unnecessarily yet an another animal can do the same thing and it is not cruel.  It is more about intent and knowledge, in my opinion

Answer 4

there was another documentry on about a week ago about the "selfish" gene is mis-firing....(not the travis song) that explained this...it is essentially because we live in social groups we are genetically conditioned to "return favours" but we do this sometimes without cause (sympathy, empathy, charity etc.) but this is because of a mis-fire of the gene.....it possible that some people fire correctly...

....also we still have our primative brains (remember the 3 layers...) so it probably plas a part in what you are on about....

.....hope this helps!