http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:17:43 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/11/29/101627.php#comment-279931 Violence and oppression is a necessary evil to ensure the survival of the fittest individuals and societies. I'm glad the cro-magnon destroyed the neanderthal, the Romans spread their culture in "blood for gold" campaigns, the British had an oppressive empire, and the USA removed and killed the indians. Without those and many other violent oppressive events our modern society could have never arisen. The pacifists would have been slaughtered and we'd still be banging rocks together waiting to die of polio, smallpox, or starvation at the ripe old age of 32. 279931@blogcritics.org Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:17:43 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/11/29/101627.php#comment-279896 It's inherent in the nature of humans - especially males - to be violent and/or cruel, since humans are primates, and primate studies have shown that even the most basic primate species wage 'war', commit 'rape', torment the weak, etc. ad nauseam. Human intellect, unfortunately, is way too shallowly rooted to overrule such genetically inherent tendencies on the part of most people. I'm not sanguine humans will ever be "humane" either to other humans or other creatures in general. 279896@blogcritics.org Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:35:20 EST