License for Bullies
by Bullies are a part of our world. But through our institutions we give them a license to behave the way they do. We have created a problem which needs to be fixed.
Another aspect of the social nature of life forms which often overlooked is animals even in the tiniest microscopic forms respect territories; this is as much a social event as it is a method of survival. Further expository of these social processes and other theories are explained in Don”t Go Ape, Darwin!
As mentioned earlier intelligent species or more specifically human beings can detract from the social order that life forms instinctively follow. Humans can rationalize themselves out of social order. However, humans as a whole for the sake of preservation of civilization typically will not allow anti-social conditions to happen for too long, at least during our present reign of morality. Each community and its government has established laws, norms, taboos, morals, ethics, etiquette, and protocols which members of the community are expected to adhere. Such practices are a necessity in order to maintain civil order. That being said, the roles people accept fit into the congruency of social order.
Darwin’s Theory of Evolution induces chaos into our realm of social order. It promotes anti-social behavior as an instinctive acceptable condition. On the basis of “survival of the fittest”, bullies, tyrants, dictators, elitists, snobs, narcissists, mass murderers, fascists, racists and anyone who are disgusted with the weak and poor can redeem solace for their actions; they after all would be executing the domination their species. There may always be bullies, but let us not give them a license to be one.
We as human beings are better than wasting our cognitive skills for conflagrations and control. We as intelligent beings should distinguish ourselves by improving our social responsibilities and quality of living for all on this world. We should not squander our very selves, all other life forms and the world’s resources on who shall have dominance. Darwin wrote about an eventual genocide of the weaker species. What if for once his prediction is correct? We annihilate ourselves because of our own self-centered stupidity.
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