Joanne Fisher
Jo@Jedigirl actually, it is normal to be in competition all the time, we have since the dawn of time over food, etc. stressed 24/7? we have less stress now than we did when we had to fight for our food. work for most of our waking hours of the day? Until modern times, people worked most of their day to grow crops, build fences, etc. What's not normal is the lack of these things which we enjoy in modern times.
Clovis 
@Justanotherjo why do you assume access to food was based on competition and not collaboration ?
Especially since, at least for hunting, our ancestors leaved some pictural description of their hunting methods showing clearly that is was a matter of working together.
@Jedigirl
Especially since, at least for hunting, our ancestors leaved some pictural description of their hunting methods showing clearly that is was a matter of working together.
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@Justanotherjo
You don't need competition when there is enough ressource for a given group of humans on a given space.
I don't think war is motivated only by ressources access, especially since war does not significally eliminate concurent humans in long term but usually only change their political leadership/system.
Maybe be war is caused by ressource competition too, but it's far more easy to exchange than to fight. We have a lot more experience in exchange and market than into war. We can count our wars, we don't count every exchanges between humans groups.
That's a form of collaboration, again
Even from a genetic and evolutionary pov, we are more made for collaboration than to fight: our very own capacity is our ability to speak and exchange ideas the way we can do it. Humans haven't evolved to fight (no claws, no leather, no bone shield), we have evolved to speak and share. We are made to live in groups of various sizes, and the mere fact we build a network like the one we are talking on tend to prove that idea.
@Jedigirl
You don't need competition when there is enough ressource for a given group of humans on a given space.
I don't think war is motivated only by ressources access, especially since war does not significally eliminate concurent humans in long term but usually only change their political leadership/system.
Maybe be war is caused by ressource competition too, but it's far more easy to exchange than to fight. We have a lot more experience in exchange and market than into war. We can count our wars, we don't count every exchanges between humans groups.
That's a form of collaboration, again
Even from a genetic and evolutionary pov, we are more made for collaboration than to fight: our very own capacity is our ability to speak and exchange ideas the way we can do it. Humans haven't evolved to fight (no claws, no leather, no bone shield), we have evolved to speak and share. We are made to live in groups of various sizes, and the mere fact we build a network like the one we are talking on tend to prove that idea.
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Julianoë@Justanotherjo @Jedigirl i'm pretty there is absolutely nothing other than misconception and modern days bias that back the fact that people were more stressed out in ancient times. We tend to think (and were raised to think) that modernity brought only benefit, good and betterment for the human condition. But assuming that can blind us to see how things could be different.
@Justanotherjo @Jedigirl if we take only one example: the number of misconceptions and urban legends about medieval europe there is is outstanding. The average joe would think that people died at 35-40 years old, that they were all dirty, illiterate and constantly sick or working themselves to death. As far as we know in the current state of knowledge about this period, almost every single point is wrong.
ChrisAshtear@Justanotherjo @Jedigirl yeah thats not true at all. There are times when agricultural societies worked way harder(harvest time), but other than that there was way less to do.
Especially if it was a hunter gatherer society and food was plentiful? There was barely any work.