Or consider war. You say "disease is an anomaly," but that's only true at the most casual of glances. At a deeper level, we find that the battle against disease is constant. There is never a minute of our lives where our immune system is not finding foreign invaders and crushing them.

And consider the penalty for harboring fugitives: apoptosis. When our cells get infected with viruses, they don't know any better. They just start making viral proteins the moment they get infected with viral DNA. They're innocent -- oblivious.

But every cell is obliged to expose some of the parts of the proteins they are constructing on the surface of their cell walls. The T cells of our immune system are constantly sampling these proteins to detect whispers of those viral protiens.

If you are found to be harboring viral DNA because you are making viral proteins, the immune system triggers apoptosis - programmed cell death. They are literally told "finish your affairs and die gracefully" at the first offense.

And if you think about it, war is actually pretty small scale, so when you look at all the wars where we shake our head in dismay, we're really best off comparing it to these small scale battles that our immune system fights ever day. The large wars are more like a fever, where the body literally engages in a scorched earth policy, making every cell's life miserable because it thinks it can take it better than the infection can.

We also aren't as dependent on those internal scripts as we think. Consdier the case of those with birth defects such as stunted arms. They live with such defects quite well. In fact, in many cases, you can even see the gait of walk changed to account for the arm. Literally the entire body works around a failure.

Or consider the case of the fossa ovalis. During our time in the womb, there is no reason to move tons of blood through the lungs. They're not being used anyways. We actually have a hole in our heart to let much of the blood simply bypass the lungs all together. The fossa ovalis is the depression that is left when that opening is closed up (almost immediately after an infant's first breath).

However, it doesn't always work. It doesn't always go according to the internal script.

Sometimes it stays open. And you know what? People live their entire lives with a heart that literally has a hole in it. It causes some blood to bypass the lungs.

It sometimes needs to be surgically corrected, but it is believed that the majority of people with that deformity aren't even aware they have it because the entire body adapts around the altered bloodflow.

Its sometimes amazing how much we deviate from the internal script in the body. Sometime we don't even have one internal script. We may have two competing scripts. Consider the case of chimeras, which is an individual who absorbed a fraternal twin in the early divisions of the blatocycst.

In that case, you literally have two different internal scripts having to work together.

And that's not even touching the conjoined twins, which are almost miraculously beautiful, but decidedly off-script.

There's plenty of cases where behaviors are downright uncooperative. Our motor controls for instance. We have multiple regions of the brain commanding each part of our body. As long as they generally agree with each other, we move. However, if they disagree, the brain actually inhibits motor control until they come to a consensus. When you are "petrified in terror," what's actually happening is parts of your brain are literally uncooperative, all disagreeing on what to do, and the result

is that you're simply not allowed to move until they agree.

And besides, if we want to talk about not cooperating in nature, let's talk about the predator prey relationship. Not cooperating is a natural part of life.

@Enteleform Let me know what you think. If you want more fun examples, I do have plenty. The process of gestation in a pregnant woman is fascinating and chock full of extraordinary extremes that seem almost imbalanced.

Life is amazing, but simple and polite it is not =)

Also, at some point we may want to explore the positive sides of society. Focusing on war and famine is only half of the story. After all, we humans have managed to create countless societies where actors and musicians can literally earn a living by nothing but reaching out and influencing people's emotions in a desirable manner. There's a lot of beauty to go along with the beast. 'Tis why I do love the approach of yinyang. It isn't that some things are yin and some things are yang,

its that the two parts are utterly inseparable, dancing for all eternity.