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In article <8d21v8$lqb@catapult.gatech.edu>,
Capablanca  <Mikhail.Tal@young.grandmaster.com> wrote:
>
[...humans are designed to kill...]
>
>We are? I don't think so. If we really were better killers than tigers, we should be
>able to take on a tiger in a closed room with no weapons. Note the *no weapons*
>part. 

We designed the weapons, made the weapons, did we not?   Besides the
silliness of this little comparison (locked in a room and whatnot) in the
real world we have at our disposal what we have created.  The fact that
we're better at creating killing devices than the tiger doesn't mean we
shouldn't have them at our disposal.  That wouldn't be a fair fight...

Not that I'm advocating killing tigers.

>We have learned to survive. That doesn't mean that we were designed to
kill. We
>were designed to think. Deal with *that*.

To the extent that we were designed to do anything, we were designed to
think about how to survive.  A big part of that is thinking about how to
kill.  Thinking is a means to an end wrt what we were "designed" for.  

Of course, there's nothing saying we have to do what we were "designed"
for.

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