Gee, Shimrod, you are destroying Lizzie's comfortable little beliefs.

Her idea of a pastoral, happy, peaceful society, living without aggression and greed, has been dream for many centuries.

History. however, shows us that Mankind is naturally warlike, aggressive and grasping; I see little evidence of an evolutionary change toward a nature in harmony with Mother Nature, or any other imagined 'deity'. Peace exists as a result of fear of consequences.