I have read through many of the posts and am familiar with the r/K proposition, though I don’t find it as compelling when applied to humanity. I have worked with numerous victims and survivors and have a signicifantly different view of the agmydala and it’s not nearly as postitive, but that’s another topic.
My question is simple, if put into proper context with those gods of logic, Monty Python:
What happens when the rabbits have guns?
I probably should have dropped the cultural reference, but I think it actually reveals a perceptual bias that overshadows an empirical fact: rabbits are more likely to commit genocide than wolves.
I disagree. Rabbits are more likely to try and get wolves to genocide others by fomenting conflicts. Clinton, Weiner, Obama, aren’t going to wade into a battlefield when everyone is going at it. But they will send armed feds to do it for them if they can.
They will try to get others to kill for them, also. Look at democratic politics and you see this strategy - class warfare, race warfare, sex-identity warfare, political ideologue warfare, “workers” vs capitalist warfare, even immigrant vs citizen warfare. If they lived in our nation, they’d get Chinese nationalist PRC people fighting with the tea party. Even the Nazis were just a helpless socialist worker’s party until they happened upon nationalists vs jews/blacks/disabled/non-Aryans.
r and K are the game. That said, it can also be viewed as adaptation to the need to fight, vs adaptation to avoiding the fight. In that case it is amygdala development vs amygdala atrophy, and because we evolved to house rearing/sex/loyalty in the amygdala, development or atrophy of the amygdala ends up dragging in the full suite of r and K by changing all of that too.
To answer your question - What happens when the rabbits have guns? It depends, does everyone else have guns, or have wolves disarmed the populace for them? In that latter case, a rabbit would kill, but they would much rather give the order to whoever is willing to kill for them.
But if everyone is armed, the rabbits won’t do shit. They’ll try to get two groups of wolves shooting at each other and then hide, but if that didn’t work, they will just plain hide.
r/K will be validated when the economy collapses and marriage and family return afterward along with a vigorous tendency to form a group identity and be loyal to the group.
The book on it should be free Monday and Tuesday in ebook form at Castaliahouse.com , if you want to see the sum of the research behind it.