Does intelligence equate to a desire to kill? Why?

What does anyone do for fun?

I mean, most of things that are considered playing is more or less a mock fight for the purpose of training for eventual real fights. Is it possible that advanced creatures will rely not on pure instinct to defend themselves, or to kill for food, but also on learning what works and what doesn't, and to develop strategies?

So that would be my tentative explanation: killing for "sport" is training for when killing for survival would be required.

One of the problems with the approach is that you cannot apply situations such as these in a generalistic way across the entire species, as due to our evolution from simple eukaryotes there is enough genetic diversity between indivudals of the same species, that very few traits are carried through an entire species, especially ones that depend partially on environmental factors like intelligence and aggression

Oh-so-wrong.

It is unequivocably incorrect to suggest that higher intelligence lends itself to "killing for fun." To even propose the question is, in itself, so telling and so disturbing.

As for the animal behavior which you have mentioned, I too saw something about the dolphin thing. And I'll just say this about that:

We are leagues away from truly understanding even a fraction of what we "observe" about animal behavior. Let's also mention the chemical overload in our oceans today. Just as a side note, mind you.

Are you familiar at all with the veritable ISLAND of trash floating around freely in the oceans today? Seems there is an actual "land mass" and another "miles-long" mass of trash in the ocean reported in the past five years or so by various ships and ocean-going vessels.

Pure trash. Foating. Leeching God-knows-what into the oceans.

One cannot discount chemicals when it comes to influencing behavior.

Animals are not MEANT to be exposed to CHEMICALS.

Also - as far as YOU know, the dolphins were teaching their young defensive maneuvers against predators.

It is preposterous to assign "human values" to animal behavior which we know very little about.

In conclusion, I would suggest you do a little reading about Einstein and his views on violence of men against their fellow men.

Civilization = nonviolence.

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How do you know that it hasn't?

Firstly, are you a serial killer who is trying to reason that you must therefore be a genius? If so, please hand yourself in to the authorities.

Dumb animals don't have the ability to imagine doing other than what they are hard wired for.

Unfortunately cleverer animals experiment with all sorts of ideas and things and tragically this includes harming others.

how about we think of intelligence and violence as separate entities, perhaps as intelligence evolves our capacity for violence on any level remains the same. but as we become more intelligent we can create more imaginative ways to be violent, so it just appears that we are becoming more violent but the level of violence is staying the the same.

hmm..interesting, I know that Ted Bundy was a college educated man who had an unusually high IQ, food for thought.