Quote Originally Posted by kib View Post
Interesting, that's exactly the issue that was going through my mind. You make it a foundational premise that there will always be a human element fighting blindly for control of everything within its potential grasp, even if winning that battle means destroying what is being grabbed in the process, like a dog snapping at soap bubbles. Are we really that stupid?

I mean ... that's rhetorical, it appears that we are. But is there no way to get beyond it?
Perhaps to become so technologically advanced and materially unconstrained that the rewards for aggression become so trivial relative to the risk that we abandon it as a tool.