In a recent post, I commented, "Why are we humans so incapable of resisting the evil which we have been plunged into repeatedly over the last eighty centuries.?" and was urged to make it into a separate post.

I wondered whether the Human species has ever lived free from force or the threat of force? I believe that all human adults are a product of three things; 1) Nature, 2) Nurture, and 3) Our conscious thinking minds. Psychology tells us we all have a fight or flight response to stress (fight, flight, freeze, or fawn) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight-or-f...) which appears to have a physical basis.

The question is: Are we hard-wired from birth to do one of these four options? Does our nurturing environments have anything to do with which response we exhibit with which stress? Certainly most of us have been exposed to "Children should be seen and not heard" and "He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes" from Proverbs 13:24

Perhaps those wired to exhibit the fight response are those intended by Nature to be the alpha-males about whom historians write peons to; Philip of Macedonia, Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun, etc. and three of the responses are passive which might account for the largest number of humanity's governments being dictatorial in nature.

But none of these account for those of us who desire to own only that which we have earned, to live in peace with our neighbors, to live in a world free of force or the threat of force. How are we wired? How have we overcome sub-optimal beginnings to be driven to find like-minded souls such as those in the Gulch?