Comment by scotty79
2 years ago
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.
Some fraction signing up so they can gun someone down, sure, those people have bad motives and should be found and excluded.
But being willing to say "I'd kill to protect X if there is no other option" is not that.
Someone who becomes a surgeon so that he can kill a patient now and then and get away with it obviously has something wrong. Someone who becomes a surgeon and now and then causes a patient to die unintentionally (even if they intended to do the surgery, knowing it could result in death) is not the same.
Are you a pacifist who thinks that it is never OK to take a life, no matter the circumstances? In that case I understand what you think, even if that is not my way of thinking.
If you are not a pacifist, then I don't understand how you think a peaceful society should act when an aggressive neighbor tries to kill all of them?
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This is such a naive point of view. Imagine seeing somebody getting assaulted, genocided, murdered in front of your eyes and then closing your eyes for the sake of 'peace,' or the idea of it that you have in mind anyway.
You should tell the Polish people in 1940s that they should only treat wounds and not fight back.
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