I picked 2 million arbitrarily as an example. The general point was that its hard to kill a lot of people when there isn’t any. That is humans and likely our ancestors have been doing these things for a long time but at a smaller scale because there were just fewer people. Humans and early hominids are violent AF. Just check out our closest living relatives, chimps. War, murder, rape, torture, completely eradicating another tribe is nothing new. What is new very recently in the hominid story is the absolutely massive increase in population.
Right, and our species knows it’s wrong, and yet continue to murder, rape, torture, and genocide. That’s what sets us apart from other animals, we know what we’re doing causes anguish, yet we do it anyway.
Now we’re getting to my point this entire time. These behaviors aren’t a western or even a homo sapien thing. Of course humanity has the ability for peace but over all known history that really hasn’t been the case. People want what they want and they unfortunately are willing to use force to get it. In the case of genocide it can be two groups who mutually believe they are not safe so long as the other exists so the fight never ends until one is wiped out fully. As they say, until your enemy becomes your friend the war is never over. Although honestly at the end of the day it’s about power and genetic propagation. Arguably everything is about genetic propagation for organisms.
I picked 2 million arbitrarily as an example. The general point was that its hard to kill a lot of people when there isn’t any. That is humans and likely our ancestors have been doing these things for a long time but at a smaller scale because there were just fewer people. Humans and early hominids are violent AF. Just check out our closest living relatives, chimps. War, murder, rape, torture, completely eradicating another tribe is nothing new. What is new very recently in the hominid story is the absolutely massive increase in population.
Right, and our species knows it’s wrong, and yet continue to murder, rape, torture, and genocide. That’s what sets us apart from other animals, we know what we’re doing causes anguish, yet we do it anyway.
Now we’re getting to my point this entire time. These behaviors aren’t a western or even a homo sapien thing. Of course humanity has the ability for peace but over all known history that really hasn’t been the case. People want what they want and they unfortunately are willing to use force to get it. In the case of genocide it can be two groups who mutually believe they are not safe so long as the other exists so the fight never ends until one is wiped out fully. As they say, until your enemy becomes your friend the war is never over. Although honestly at the end of the day it’s about power and genetic propagation. Arguably everything is about genetic propagation for organisms.
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