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Originally Posted by the_tyrant
Find me one person with unlimited power(emperors, dictators etc) that didn't use his/her power to enforce his/her will on others
Hey, read the bible. Even god uses the threat of going to hell to make us not sin and worship him
evolution has left a feature in us. We are always working for ourselves, trying to maximize our benefits.
Fear is the only thing keeping us from turning into a group of savages that kill the weak
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Humans are social creatures, there is more that governs our behaviour than fear. Empathy plays a large part in it as does mutualy benefitial cooperation. Then there is gain, waht would a rational person stand to gain from murdering all that are within his or her ability to kill?
You are boiling down complex behaviours to a singular, and wrong, simple answer. The world is rarely, if ever, that simple.
Edit: If people would be as you describe them, more would be capable of real violence, yet most people do not get into a fight in their entire life. By a fight I do not man a schoolyeard bawl where a couple of weak punches are thrown and then it degrades into a wresling match, I mean a fight where you go for another persons throat, go for their eyes, try to break a joint or kill hte person. Most people are only capable of killing another when forced to or it is trained int oa conditioned reflex and even then the vast majority have serious problems living with the consequences of their actions, if the sole motivator for avoiding violence was fear of punishment, that would not be the case.