This is a refreshing change from your usual optimism. 
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Interesting read. I’ve always wondered how culture mediates our neural systems to display such diverse behaviors in humans. Maybe we are programed for malevolence but change is certainly possible. I wonder if brain science will possibly help explain the varieties in behaviors?
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controversial article... how many people - so many opinions ... as well in science ... I'd like to know a bit about the author and the researchers...about their inner world
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Primitive primates evolving. We are as we are.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused, not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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We're only a few hundred thousand generations removed from the earliest Homo Sapiens, and a few thousand generations removed from a tribalistic "Lord of the Flies" reality. Can't expect those aggressive tendencies to vanish overnight. Let's keep trying.
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do we really admire the rich? I've found a much more common behavior is to be resentful towards wealth and resilient against conceding any success as anything but luck...
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"resentful towards wealth and resilient against conceding any success as anything but luck" - I think the admiration we feel is possibly less conscious, a point made later in the article about being motivated by envy rather than admiration.
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The entire oeuvre is blinkered..
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We? Speak for yourself. I'm adorable - the rest of you need to take a good look at yourselves!
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I’m gonna go with “wait and see” with a whole bunch of social and behavioral claims for a bit. Feeling a bit burned by replication issues
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in'69 i came across Life mag 25 yrs anniv of Nazi camps. been reading abt Holocaust,especially survivors' memoirs Wiesel, P Levi. Watched Shoah all of it ,thrice over. Hardest is not the killings. Dead r dead, nothing will bring them back. Hard part is lack of regrets...
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from nazis and from neighbors who turned in their jewish neighbors. from H Arendt i read all stats abt which countries have highest jewish % killed . Nazis success depended on neighbor betraying neighbors. after all nazis don't know who is who. neighbors do. So that during WW2 ..
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you'd say, well, then in 70s there is Khmer rouge , in 90s there is Rwanda genocide n Yougoslavia disintegration and then Isis... Read book making case Rwanda killings is all abt resources competition ie farmland. So you have killings for resources,religion,politics ..
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Primo Levi killed himself for a damn good reason imo :despair. That said ,the "we" in the article I understand is not the "majority we ". But there is enough latent % of pop during any period that could be incited by the right sort of agitator(s) for these horrible acts ...
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to occur again. After all i believe they r selected by darwinian competition for survival. tribalism, jealousy, lack of introspection etc ... help survival. only in Hollywood movies do kindness,selflessness ... win.
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You say "worst." I say AWESOME!!! See? I'm an optimist! :D
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