If one is fond of paradox and irony, one might go further and arguethat cooperation itself is one of the basic sources of conflict in human life. If man were a solitary species, with each individual living apart from all the restexcept for mating, as is the case with certain animals, there would be far lessconflict among men. If each produced only for himself and there were nodivision of labor and exchange of goods, one of the major sources of humanstrife would be eliminated. By contrast, when men join forces in a cooperativeenterprise, whether it be a family or total society, both the opportunity and themotivation for conflict are greatly increased.(
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, Gerhard E.Lenski, 1966, Page 26.)Emergence is a term applied to the process whereby hitherto unknownqualities appear in a form arising from the summation of parts, parts whichmay also appear to exist as discrete units, in which comparatively independentstate there is little sign of those same emergent qualities that are so apparentupon unification. The summation of parts into a form possessing hithertounknown qualities necessarily constitutes a state of self-negating unificationfor the parts involved, these parts must therefore have an inherent predisposition causing the negation of their individuality in order to bringabout the individual’s true state of fulfilment in unity with others of their kind.Take any devout, sincere devotee of any religion that is popular and wellknown. Each individual is good, kind, loving, self-effacing, generous andcapable of great sacrifice for others they love, and even for complete strangers,as dictated by their faith. Add one such lovely person to another such good person, and another beautiful person, another caring being, one more passionate devotee of love, and another, and so on. Until the mass is of suchan order it is amorphous and there are no longer any individuals to bediscerned, all there are are the devotees of one religious order, one mantra, onefaith, one force, one direction, forming one united congregation, one almighty boil on the face of humanity which oozes evil, like the purest form of evil it is possible to imagine. From the summation of such goodness as this, from belief in God emerges a capacity for pure evil, of a like unknown in any butthe most insane of individuals who are unaffiliated to any such unified body.2