>Human beings are also designed for aggression towards each other, yet we generally try to control those parts of our 'savage nature' in modern society.
No. There is no evolutionary benefit for raw aggression. Raw aggression appears during times of limited resources where aggression contributes to survival. Humans as all living things, are designed to survive and use any means to achieve it.
Given minimal resources we all will revert to our primal natures.
>Torturing defenseless animals is not an inescapable facet of human nature. It's something we choose to do and be OK with.
Nothing is inescapable. You are designed by nature to live out a certain lifetime yet you can escape your nature by killing yourself. This does not change your fundamental nature. We are more prone to follow our nature then to ignore it.
> There is no evolutionary benefit for raw aggression. Raw aggression appears during times of limited resources where aggression contributes to survival.
Those sentences seem to contradict each other very directly.
The benefit doesn't just exist for no reason. It only exists because of limited resources. When resources are not limited we don't display aggressive behavior.
We are not living in a time of limited resources therefore it is actually evolutionary detrimental for us to be aggressive. It's not a coincidence that our popular culture de-emasculates itself bit by bit every decade. It's because we live in plentiful times and our behavior (which is conditioned through natural selection) reflects this.
No. There is no evolutionary benefit for raw aggression. Raw aggression appears during times of limited resources where aggression contributes to survival. Humans as all living things, are designed to survive and use any means to achieve it.
Given minimal resources we all will revert to our primal natures.
>Torturing defenseless animals is not an inescapable facet of human nature. It's something we choose to do and be OK with.
Nothing is inescapable. You are designed by nature to live out a certain lifetime yet you can escape your nature by killing yourself. This does not change your fundamental nature. We are more prone to follow our nature then to ignore it.