In terms of personal durability and physical strength, yeah, Ctarl-Ctarl definitely outpoint humans by a wide margin. I'd bet that humans have similar advantages in terms of endurance - but how relevant to your day-to-day life is the ability to run a marathon? Reflexes seem to be about equal, as is intelligence. Tool use and social aikido - I don't believe for an instant that a sophisticated technological society like the Ctarl-Ctarl always resolve such disputes physically - can more than overcome those differences even when they're being tackled directly.
That said, I don't buy the assertion that the inability to accept a lower position in the pecking order is a universal human trait; there are aspects of this behavior in human interaction, too, and no few people simply decline to care about their position in the given circle or are otherwise willing to accept a subordinate position for one reason or another.
I do think you're right about why those humans who are invested in advancing their position do well at it, though. Comes down to the difference between ambush and cursorial predators, again.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
That said, I don't buy the assertion that the inability to accept a lower position in the pecking order is a universal human trait; there are aspects of this behavior in human interaction, too, and no few people simply decline to care about their position in the given circle or are otherwise willing to accept a subordinate position for one reason or another.
I do think you're right about why those humans who are invested in advancing their position do well at it, though. Comes down to the difference between ambush and cursorial predators, again.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."