ComradeChris
28th May 2005, 02:51
I'll keep this relatively short, because it's mainly a question and a person theory.
But could greed possibly be genetic? I mean, primitive mankind lived in relative equality (primitive communism), where everyone had a specific role and did it without question or the desire of reward (except to possibly live). However, somewhere along the line, someone obviously felt they deserved more power than the other people. Now if you have someone who wants power, versus a peaceful egalitarian you know who's probably to win.
Now for instance, if that first person who wanted personal power say had a mutation or something, their victory of their authority would obviously be spread out with their genes. And any attempt to revert back to equality, would obviously be lessoning the person with contol's power; so s/he would do whatever it took to repress it (a lot like Machiavelli's idea of ruthless techniques to maintain power in The Prince). This would further spread the geneflow of the power-hungry individual's genes. Eventually more and more people would include this gene and want power and material possessions.
With this theory, I'm primarily concerned with how the first greedy person came to be. I mean if everyone was equal until some certain point, why would people desire more? So proposing it to be a genetic illness would make sense would it not? What is everyone elses opinions?
This might be more appropriate in philosophy or something. If it's misplaced, put it to a more appropriate location.
But could greed possibly be genetic? I mean, primitive mankind lived in relative equality (primitive communism), where everyone had a specific role and did it without question or the desire of reward (except to possibly live). However, somewhere along the line, someone obviously felt they deserved more power than the other people. Now if you have someone who wants power, versus a peaceful egalitarian you know who's probably to win.
Now for instance, if that first person who wanted personal power say had a mutation or something, their victory of their authority would obviously be spread out with their genes. And any attempt to revert back to equality, would obviously be lessoning the person with contol's power; so s/he would do whatever it took to repress it (a lot like Machiavelli's idea of ruthless techniques to maintain power in The Prince). This would further spread the geneflow of the power-hungry individual's genes. Eventually more and more people would include this gene and want power and material possessions.
With this theory, I'm primarily concerned with how the first greedy person came to be. I mean if everyone was equal until some certain point, why would people desire more? So proposing it to be a genetic illness would make sense would it not? What is everyone elses opinions?
This might be more appropriate in philosophy or something. If it's misplaced, put it to a more appropriate location.