Drumph now Rambo

[Dill]

(02-27-2018, 07:40 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: For every one that would, there are many more that would not. Biologically speaking, people that run into danger rather than away from aren't going to succeed in passing on their genes to the next generation. Yeah, we have been screwing over Darwinian theory with some technological advances, but that thread still runs deep. This is survival instinct we're talking about, one of the strongest instincts we have. This isn't to say people don't overcome it, but the vast majority aren't going to.

Lol.  

Still, humans in their "natural" community state don't act as do the atomistic self-interested individuals of advanced capitalism, do they?  Humans, like baboons and wolves, have rushed to defend their own for thousands of years. And not just parents defending their own children.  That self-sacrificial impulse may have been more critical to our species survival than "every man for himself."

The critical factor in Bfine's question is "unarmed." With spears, I think most tribal males will get between that cave bear and their fleeing tribe.  (No spears though, maybe no deal.)