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we are a violent species. mopinko Mar 2023 #1
Yes, Putin is not really an exception historically Walleye Mar 2023 #3
Do you think it was at some point a necessity for survival? Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #13
When people get the upper hand they need to push other people around Walleye Mar 2023 #2
it's like w dogs- mopinko Mar 2023 #4
I agree with you on both points there Walleye Mar 2023 #6
well, evolutionary psychology posits mopinko Mar 2023 #12
I never thought of that. Nice. Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #15
Evolutionary psychology debunked cbabe Mar 2023 #26
Great article! Thank you. Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #30
good article. mopinko Mar 2023 #34
But is that changing? I'm thinking of the women at Abu Ghraib. Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #10
yes it is. mopinko Mar 2023 #17
I'm trying to think if I, as a woman, would want to physically dominate people Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #5
I know, but as a rule we physically are superior to children and don't treat them badly Walleye Mar 2023 #7
True. For most of us. Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #8
Oh yes that's what makes it so fascinating and so frustrating,a giant moral spectrum good to evil Walleye Mar 2023 #9
And there are backslides. I think we are in a backslide in the US now. That's what prompted the Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #11
i've given it some thought from time to time. lol mopinko Mar 2023 #21
Europe DID go through dreadful suffering for centuries in the middle ages. raging moderate Mar 2023 #14
Everything about European psychology does hark back to Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #16
And re-reading your post, just as violence goes from parent Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #22
Interesting question-I would say it comes from what some call man's original sin - the ego. c-rational Mar 2023 #18
What do you think were the insults to the ego that caused the "othering?" Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #32
Not so much an insult per se, rather just the existence of an ego which fools you into believing c-rational Mar 2023 #33
Fear modrepub Mar 2023 #19
Of what, do you think? I know with Native Americans Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #20
My first known European American immigrant ancestor married an Algonquin lady in Quebec. raging moderate Mar 2023 #23
Of Something Different modrepub Mar 2023 #24
Fear of being absorbed is definitely in there, and we are seeing that surging today. Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #31
Conrad believed the origin and true nature of the heart of darkness could never be clearly Martin68 Mar 2023 #25
I did not know this. And he certainly made a study of it. Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #27
Pretty simple orthoclad Mar 2023 #28
I see your point. I'm thinking of, for example, the Sierra Leone civil war or the Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #29
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