It is disturbing to realize that all humans alive today are the direct descendants of the most successful committers of murder, enslavement, rape and genocide, and all historical injustice is just the documented tail end of success and failure in primate evolutionary competition.
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Explain the evolutionary mechanisms that bred them out. Natural selection? Did the less violent suddenly become super successful because of environmental changes? Sexual selection? Did women all simultaneously prefer to sleep with less dominating men?
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Yes, men that tried to become successful rapists and murderers suddenly had a lot less offspring when civilization took hold. The desire to climb a social hierarchy is not simply a veiled and repressed substitute for drinking the blood of your enemies from their skulls.
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