Are predators(human) a way of nature trying to thin out the heard?

In nature we have prey and we have predators. I will use the explanation my teacher in biology gave me for this. The predator the fox is always smaller than lets say the rabbit population. The rabbit population could be maybe 70 while the fox population is 20. With a lot of rabbits the population of fox grows. Though with too many foxes around there is not enough rabbits and some of the foxes die and become smaller. Which allows more rabbits to be born.

This is the rule of nature. With no predator to keep the prey in check eventually the population dies from starvation. This is only one way life regulates itself. There is also things like desiese and this is something the human race gets none of. Nature gives us the instict to protect ourselves. So when we get predators(criminals) we lock them up or kill them.

Yet if you look at this from a evolutionary point are we suppose to do this? We have people who seem to be born evil and have no remorse, no pity and want nothing but to make another person suffer regardless of the consequences. We also have people despite teaching us safety rules as children will gladly run to this person and not understand why this person would make them suffer. Despite the fact society has made these safety rules for a reason.

So are these seemingly soulless people just a way of killing off the morons? That seem to be asking for their own demise? In nature these morons would be dead but in society we try to save the idiots. No matter how stupid we know they are. We try to save them and after awhile you realize you cant save people like this.

In nature they would not be alive anymore but since we took out the obstacles which thin the heard they exist. Now I am not talking about people who suffer from things like bipolorism and Schizophrenia and those such things. I talk about people that torture small animals and slaughter people just for the fun of it and while doing it will have a smile plastered across their face.

Than the people who knowing these people are going to hurt them say "Lets hang out mr.predotor." Now no I am not saying crime is good. I am not saying these people are good for the world. However some people are clearly too stupid to be existing without the rest of of keeping them out of trouble.

The people who turn out this way are random as well. Sometimes people who come out this way have no reason to be angry, they were not beaten as children or ever mistreated. They just come out like monsters and no one knows why. Of course this kind of attitude can be made but sometimes it just isnt.

I think so and this idea makes sense from an evolution point 3
This would make sense accept for one point which I have a counter for 3
I think this is completely wrong(express why) 2
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  • kingofcarrotflowers

    Hhmmmm it's an interesting idea, the world and it's inhabitants have evolved in such interesting ways to adapt and survive to their surroundings but this I hadn't thought of, a way of keeping the population in control by chemical imbalances in the brain of a certain amount of humans,
    Surely though the amount of humans killed through disease and natural disasters far outweighs the amount of people killed by others excluding wars seeing as we are talking about people with psychopathic tendencies.
    I'll give this some thought

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    • kingofcarrotflowers

      I think it makes sense from an evolutionary point of view.

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    • Yes that might be true but like I said we have greatly decreased disease, old age deaths and death from injury thanks to medical care. Things like severe retardation and schizophrenia I think are just things just happen. Since taking away a persons means of functioning correctly does not promote or discourage rate of death. It also does not benefit the creature its happening to. I also had the thought cancer might be a means of regulating deaths. Since cancer can happen to anyone at any time and has no definite reason.

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      • kingofcarrotflowers

        Yeah ice thought about cancer being nature's way of
        Conrolling population, I think it makes sense,
        I find the idea of evolution confusing and amazing,
        I don't believe in a God or a being actively making changes looking at the plants the hummingbirds uses and making them longer then making the beak of the bird longer as a way of adapting, but then I don't believe in nature being a spiritual force controlling evolution, also the atoms that make up everything don't have the cognitive ability to plan, I'm going to be thinking about this all night

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        • I never said they did. Also nature is not a force but it happens. Its not something magical. Its kind of like Karma. Karma says what goes around comes around. If you are complete dick to people eventually they act the same way and word gets around. However nature as you see has ways of regulating itself. Such as viruses, and predators. So nature has ways of regulating itself. Nature is a set thing and like everything else in science it has laws.

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          • kingofcarrotflowers

            But what dictates the laws?

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            • The laws exist to keep things in check.

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  • Lonely2

    No you said they kill off the morons...as if it is therefore only a good thing whereas i said that they also kill off the good people which is not always a good thing

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  • Lonely2

    Yes, it is a way of regulating the herd....exactly...but that is not always good....GROUP survival is paramount in social animals ...because nature seeks to protect the gene pool and figures it can kill off percentages of individuals ....but even the cream can be killed if it furthers group cohesion that will enhance survival....so murderers are not just the white blood cells of the social body....many times the best are killed as well ....not just morons or diseased and dysfunctional....sometimes the best are sacrificed...because nature " knows" that those good genes are still somewhere in the total gene pool and nature doesn't care about time per se...it only cares about the survival of the group....yet for us the loss of those exceptional people could set us back hundreds even thousands of years amd make life right now worse

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    • That really is not my point. I never said that these killers only kill bad people. I said they are ways of regulating the heard. THAT'S IT

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  • Lonely2

    Your sort of on to something ....but psycopaths and sociopaths dont always just kill the morons...sometimes they kill the cream of the crop...but in general I do believe their is an evolutionary survival mechanism at work here...murder goes up when the survival stress is too high...people become murderer because of too much stress at certain formative times...the stress destroys higher emotional abilities and the their brain turns on the destroy mode which they experience as homicidal / suicidal urges

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    • Yes I never said that was the case. I am saying this is natures way of regulating the heard. Since nature has a way of keeping everything in check. We took away most of our checks what if this is the last one? Nature wants us to survive as a species not as a single person.

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