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Part of the reason for this, is for example, that animals can warn each
other of the first appearance of a predator and therefore have the
opportunity to take some kind of evasive action, before the stalking
animal is too close to fend off or escape.
But on the other hand, animals do not always easily live together in
crowds as each demands its own territorial space, mating rights and so on,
and obviously where a lot of animals occupy the same space, more
potential conflicts can arise.
Thus we see in various species all kinds of ritual battles, like those of
stags or goats butting each other with their horns, and gorillas making
their chest-thumping displays to similarly claim their rights to dominance
on some patch and in some group.
Some biologists have reported that amongst ape groups, there are much
more complex behaviours going on, for example, that two apes may form
an allegiance to support one another against a more powerful ape who
tries to dominate the group, in order that they may also claim their
territorial and mating rights.
These kinds of complex social behaviours they say need a larger brain,
which by retrospective analysis suggests it is the reason it evolved.
So we are encouraged by the evolutionists and their endless TV
documentaries telling us what Nature is like, and affirming this idea of
animalistic duelling and “the survival of the fittest” that really, our human
society is little different.
And it appears in many ways to be so, especially increasingly so in our
modern society.
Because, the object we see, of this advanced brain, according to their
theory, is not to be “good people”, but only to be clever “social
operators” whose goal is to produce the maximum personal advantage for
themselves in terms of surviving and reproducing.
Professor Richard Dawkins has documented all this kind of thing in his
book “The Selfish Gene.”
So the implication for human society is that being a “goody goody” moral
person is really just “a mug’s game” and “nice guys finish last.”