Because you are the direct descendent of a murderer, a rapist, a thief, a slaver, a raider, a pillager, a conquerer, and a genocider.
I don’t care who you are or where you are from. Sometime in the near or distant past, you had ancestors that did each of these. Some of these crimes are more relevant in the present day; the Holocaust or Jim Crow have a lot more effect on present sociology than Rome’s genocide of Carthage. But go back far enough, and each and every one of us is descended from a monster.
Violence is simply part of us, and it has since before we were even human. If it ever existed, the “pacifist” gene was weeded out of the gene pool a long time ago
Well, I’m also probably the descendent of someone who was murdered, raped, stolen from, raided, or enslaved. And of educators, healers/medical practitioners, maybe activists for a good cause, artists. What’s your point? All of these things just got deleted from the DNA somehow? And the DNA just magically predetermines all of my thoughts and behavior?
Because you are the direct descendent of a murderer, a rapist, a thief, a slaver, a raider, a pillager, a conquerer, and a genocider.
I don’t care who you are or where you are from. Sometime in the near or distant past, you had ancestors that did each of these. Some of these crimes are more relevant in the present day; the Holocaust or Jim Crow have a lot more effect on present sociology than Rome’s genocide of Carthage. But go back far enough, and each and every one of us is descended from a monster.
Violence is simply part of us, and it has since before we were even human. If it ever existed, the “pacifist” gene was weeded out of the gene pool a long time ago
Well, I’m also probably the descendent of someone who was murdered, raped, stolen from, raided, or enslaved. And of educators, healers/medical practitioners, maybe activists for a good cause, artists. What’s your point? All of these things just got deleted from the DNA somehow? And the DNA just magically predetermines all of my thoughts and behavior?