RE:RE Agriculture was mankind's biggest mistake

My opponent seems to be overestimating the capability of technology. He states that we would still have computers and phones, because they are mobile, and hunter gathers are mobile; he does not state why they are mobile. It is pretty damn hard to place a satellite in the sky, without the base to lunch it. A nomadic community could not launch a satellite into orbit. Even if they could, what about the technology that predated it? The precursor to the laptop was the computer, the first computer took up an entire wall, which would be highly impractical for a nomadic community. The precursor to mobile phone was the stationary telephone, which needed land lines, the same way it's precursor the telegraph needed land lines. Technology advancements would have been highly limited to what yo can take with you through seasonal changes. Hunter gatherers never stayed in a place for more than two weeks. If you are working on inventing something it has to be small enough to take with you very 2 weeks or less. My opponent claims Agriculture caused wars, desires and epidemics, bad health, social injustice, and racism; his claims are all false. Wars was present in Hunter Gatherer communities, such as the Crow Indians of the American Plains. Like the Crow Indians, one tribe would go to war with another tribe over hunting territory. Our ancestors often warred with evolutionary cousins over hunting grounds, which many scientist believe is the reason for Homo Neanderthal's extinction; we was smarter and wiped out the competition with superior weapons. Desire, or envy has been proven to be a evolutionary trait in all primates. A study on our closest living evolutionary cousins, the chimpanzees has proven, that envy is a survival mechanism. The study started by giving one chimp a banana, and then giving the other a banana; both was happy. The study than gave one chimp a banana, and the other a grape, the one with the banana refused to eat, an threw away the banana in protest. The reason for envy is that if one primate comes back with a handful of berries, and another comes back with two handfuls of berries, the one with the handful of berries, would try harder to get more berries. Epidemics are not limited to agricultural societies, in fact epidemics is much easier to spreed when traveling, and much easier to be infected by new diseases you have not yet built up an immunity too. One of the theories of why the Dinosaurs went extinct was that they traveled too much, and got sick from parasites, and diseases they was not immune to. Kind of like the ending to the War of the Worlds, "From the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate and drank, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all of man's weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that God in his wisdom put upon this earth. By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges. For neither do men live nor die in vain." You say Agricultural communities have bad health, but I beg to differ, malnutrition was a major problem with hunter gatherers, and we can still see it in modern hunter gatherer communities. Lack of food leads to two things, malnutrition, and war. On top of the unreliable food source, they also needed more food, because they was nomadic, and had to track and search for all their food, meaning they required more calories, and more nutrients. Also as stated before, nomadic people are more prone to new illnesses. The Black Plague which killed most of the Earth's population was caused and spreed by germ infested rats hitching a ride with merchants traveling from continent to continent, it was not caused by farmers. One of Modern society' biggest problems regarding epidemics is the fact it is easier to travel; it is easier to bring new illnesses into a continent, and it is easier to spreed a virus. You claim there was no social injustice, or racism among hunter gatherers, but that was because they was segregated by tribes, which competed for food, and they all shared the burden of society. Because of the equal burden in society, when someone broke a law, laws was much harsher, and usually meant death, or exile; being exiled was worse than being executed, and was it's self a death sentence. You also need to remember slavery of enemy tribes was practiced in hunter gatherer societies, the Crow Indians would enslave and even rape women of warring tribes, or white settlers. Today we enjoy the ability to live anywhere we want, we have a plethora of luxuries, made possible by permanent settlements, and we enjoy a rich healthy lifestyle, made possible by the agricultural community, and the safety of a familiar environment.