oh yes it could

How about this? How about you don't tell me it couldn't get any worse? At any given moment i can think of half a dozen ways things could be much worse, and that is before I even touch divergent chimpanzee evolution.

I speak of chimpanzees because they pose the most danger, at least speaking in terms of geopolitics. There are troops of these insidious primates that have begun weapon production. I mean, at this point it is still limited to sharpening straight sticks to make spears but all they need to do is learn to throw straight and they could definitely take on the air force of Benin.

This is in the wild. Behavioral scientists are not helping the situation. Teaching analytical and complex abstract communication skills and then infecting them with Rage. Definitely a bad idea.

I would have to take extreme umbrage with Enraged Baboon for his proposal several years ago that we turn Las Vegas into a gambling revenue driven animal warfare zone. Not that I think it wouldn't be awesome to get to bet on axe wielding wolverines fighting against a gorilla with an AK-47. I actually think is would be somewhat of an improvement on the current Las Vegas scene which has gotten just too tame after the new stricter performance regulations were instituted in response the tiger eating Helmut's head off leaving behind just Sigfried and Roy.

My major issue with the proposition is the combat evolution of the animals. In that sort of colosseum setting the chimpanzees would be able to rack up the points insanely quickly. It would be mere months before they reached level 50 at which point they get to choose a either a larger brain or the ability to reach all the controls in an F-35 Lightening.

If I were them I would definitely go for the F-35 because then only John McLane would have a chance of beating them. But it is all together a bad idea since if they are allowed to do that then they would beat all the other animals in the Las Vegas circuit way too easily and would quickly move on to annihilating the Monaco casinos in order to set up more animal fighting venues for them to dominate. In this way the chimpanzees would be able to evolve right through to Universal Emperor and then we would be at their mercy. I hope they are benevolent tyrants but I doubt it. So please don't assault my ear holes with such drivel as "things couldn't get any worse."