Is human nature to be violent and selfish? Or is it to be cooperative and kind? Is it both? I think there is solid evidence that it is the later and not the former.

But how could this be when since the dawn of history humans have been waging war against each other?

Well when we look at pre-history, we find that humans had been completely peaceful for at least 200,000 years. This is 20 times as long as since we've been violent. And the violence started suddenly overnight in evolutionary terms.

Because of these two facts, and since human nature is what we were evolved to be, and evolution can't happen overnight, we must conclude that humans were inflicted with the disease of violence. In other words, violence is a disease, it is not human nature.

So, in order to cure this disease, we must first view it as a disease and not as simply human nature. Because human nature is not something to be cured. Human nature can be hacked, but would you trust a medication that was designed to stop you from being selfish and violent? Especially if it was mandated by the government? I wouldn't.

But even more troubling would be knowing that violence is not human nature, it is a disease, and the anti-violence medication would be trying to change human nature instead of curing the actual cause of the disease.

In case you aren't in the health field, let me explain something, cures never work when they don't address the underlying cause, and they usually make things worse in the long run.

There is a strong case to be made that this disease of human selfishness and violence is perpetuated by child neglect. A neglect so pervasive that it isn't seen as neglect. And if true, the only way to fix it is to see the neglect for what it is and then try to figure out what children need that we aren't giving them and then give it to them.

And I'm talking about supplying to them a physical need required by their biology in order to be fully human, which means to be fully absent of violence and selfishness, and instead full of peace and cooperation.