The Demonic Male

"The Demonic Male", 1997, by Dale Peterson and Richard Wrangham indicates human males and chimpanzees are the only violent animals. The Bonobos however were a non violent type of chimpanzee. The authors study showed that humans and their cousins, chimpanzees, were the only animals that killed their own kind.

The authors give reasons that have long been suspected; food and women. Males have a biological need to procreate and sow their seeds. Food scarcity and the drive to survive will make animals fight. The desire to mate is so strong, humans and chimpanzee males will rape females.

This behavior, violence for food, is strange for humans, considering human animals can produce more food than they need.

Why does this behavior not happen in other animals? It does. They fight and protect their territory, food, and off spring. The males of other animals do not rape the females. The males could kill more of their own kind but they usually don't have the opportunity because battles end, as the defeated runs away, before death. You cannot run away from a stealth missile.

As long as human males have a need for females there will always be the State, and the military, espousing sophistry to justify the innate violence of males.

The Bible, Numbers, Chapter 31, verses 1 through 18 tells of the violence and horrors, just to collect women, virgin women.

Numbers 31:7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.

Numbers 31:9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.

Numbers 31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

Numbers 31:18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

The best way to curtail the violence of the demonic male is to abort each male fetus for the next 25 years. The goal is to make the world's males/female ratio population to be many more females for each male, This will go a long way towards eliminating war. In India and China, more female than male fetuses are aborted. There are millions more males than females in these countries. This only means trouble ahead.

It is time for the so called "civilized" man to find a better solution to the curse mother nature placed on him. Hopefully, bio engineering will change humans' innate propensity for violence.

Charles Tolleson, Bonobo