Published: 2025-09-03
Last Updated: 2025-09-03
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Humans are normally cooperative creatures meaning that under normal circumstances they work together to make sure they are comfortable, have enough food to eat, and many things to play with.
They enjoy sharing, examining, exploring, and spending time together. Humans don't often expect to encounter danger in their environment, or unsafe living conditions with lack of food, uncomfortable homes, or nothing to play with that can help deal with boredom.
Expectations are normally absent of other humans trying to wreck their homes, destroy their food supplies, or ruin their satisfaction. They definitely don't expect to encounter aggressively oriented humans trying to annoy and aggravate other humans or their environment.
Human aggression can often be dealt with through medicines that calm, exercises that tire, activities that confuse, and in the most aggressive situations, the area can be abandoned, leaving the aggressives alone in the former home of the humans that left.
Often it is necessary for active aggression to be confronted with aggression itself. Leaving those involved in these conversations a choice to protect the group by becoming an aggressive themselves, or to maintain behaviors that are significant of human development and the goals outlined for the future.
This is how the world has become more calm and peaceful over the last 100 years. A small group of humans, decided to protect the group of humans they originated from by confronting the most aggressive humans that were causing harm to the overall humans of the Earth. The reason for this and the need to confront aggression with aggression has gotten smaller over the years, making it unnecessary to think about those things very often. When it does happen, there is often a small group of people ready to seek those things out, and confront them if necessary.
This makes it necessary to think about human behaviors and how they are changing to prepare us for the future. Things like wanting to be first, wanting to prove somebody wrong, insisting on something after someone already said no, possibly multiple times. These things are now considered aggressive behaviors and so are things like taking peoples belongings or copying them to take the things they are known for and good at, redirecting their sustenance in another direction.
Demanding to share because a person has more, may need to be evaluated. If a colony of mice demand an elephant share their afternoon meal because they have much more than a mice can ever eat in an afternoon or even a day; that would require an examination of aggressive behaviors.
The elephant may no longer have enough food to help the other elephants with their activities. They may be afraid to ask the other elephants for food, or to even go around them because the food demanding mice might determine they have too much food as well, and bring other mice colonies to take all their afternoon meals.
Aggression comes in many forms, but if the hungry elephant has no one to help, then the elephant must go hungry; or wait until it is safe to escape into a new home.
Its important to be aware of our own behaviors, so that we can confront aggression within ourselves and be good members of the environments in which we live.