Human Brutality, History, and the Future

People kill people. People torture and imprison people. People destroy or enslave whole populations of other people. Ho, hum. Pass the ketchup, please. The Holocaust – what a horror! The Nazis – inhuman beasts! Atypical? Not really. People do behave this way, and have done so for all of recorded history. Probably nearly everyone in the world has ancestors who behaved brutally towards other humans.

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