Comment by nyolfen
2 years ago
i think if you take a look at human history, the animal kingdom, etc, you will find that in fact it is you who has something strange going on in your brain
2 years ago
i think if you take a look at human history, the animal kingdom, etc, you will find that in fact it is you who has something strange going on in your brain
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/28/natural-born...
Humans and other primates are more prone to this deficiency of the brain than other mammals.
But even so, only 2% of humans were killed by other humans. And since many killers usually kill more than one person killers are a miscule minority even in such deficient species as humans. Even with all the cultural pressure that glorifies killing in the "right circumstances".
Given that anyone who volunteers to be a killer has something wrong in him. Falls on the far end of some spectrum.
> anyone who volunteers to be a killer has something wrong in him
Consider the native american indian warriors who volunteered to defend their land against the invaders. Or jews in Poland who volunteered to defend against the Germans in WW2.
Does your statement apply to them as well?
Of course. Some of them.
Not everone who joins the army is a volunteer killer. Some people just want to help. Treat wounds. Recover wounded. Scare the enemy away. Some tentatively accept that some people might die in the process. People tend to accept that in war people die. They are more like armed robbers who'd love to have their goals met without killing anyone but some are accepting that someone might die in the process. But fraction of people are killers. They participate in the process in order to kill. Those are the most deficient ones. They are present in every place where people die, on both sides.
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