I found the reading in chapter 8 is very confusing. I have to read it many times in order to find out what are the message they want to convey. The last paragraph in section 6 confused me the most: "In brief, human settlement isn't against the lasws of competition, it's subject to the lasws of competition." So is it saying the the law itself made humans to establish settlement that will grow bigger and bigger and eventually come to a point that the humans are destroying the world?!
Competition is happening in not just humans but also animals, so why don't the animals dominate? Why can't some other species be the Takers and act like what the humans are doing now? When I was reading this paragraph, I relates to what Ishmael said earlier that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with humans.
The class discussion last Friday about "we should only take what we need, and leave the rest to others" is related to our GEI class. In GEI class, we are talking about if there's any ways to maintain a better lifestyle even if we reduced the ecological footprints. The solution I came up with that question was "take only the amount you need". If we only take what we need, then we are able to maintain the sustainability of this whole community and have a peaceful relation with the nature, the animals, and even the whole "planet".
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