07-26-2012, 06:57 PM
Neither peacefulness or pacifist means non-violent, so it depends on how you look at it. Being a peaceful persons means you are not inclined to cause disagreement or strife. So a peaceful community is one that does not actively seek to cause upset. Pacifism is mainly a rejection of war, but may include total non-violence. So people can still kill for food and be considered peaceful/pacifistic.
But asides from the links about early man I posted, there isn't much else I can say on the matter, as I have no time machine with which to go back and observe man myself. I'm inclined to believe we were probably not aggressive because we just didn't have many reasons to be and we had some degree of rationality to process this.
But asides from the links about early man I posted, there isn't much else I can say on the matter, as I have no time machine with which to go back and observe man myself. I'm inclined to believe we were probably not aggressive because we just didn't have many reasons to be and we had some degree of rationality to process this.