Oh, do I have so many choice colorful words I would love to yell at in Vietnamese.

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[–] 2 points 9 months ago (8 children)
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    dehumanization is the easy and wrong way out. it's human to have the capacity for infinite cruelty. change the material circumstances and you too might be cruel.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Right on. It's so deeply human that no other animal has been observed to be as cruel as we are to each other and our environment.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    You'll lose that opinion real fast if you learn about chimps, dolphins, or even lions.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    No chimp has performed a holocaust. I don't know about the dolphins though; who knows what goes on beneath the waves...

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Chimps massacre and cannibalize rival tribes on the regular.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago

    True, but they don't industrialize it.

    That industrialization counts for something, AND so does needless-sadism as a specialization, which .. ttbomk .. nature doesn't produce quite so regularly among normal animals.


    We're basically industrialized chimps/baboons, when we COULD have been Homo Humanus, upright-humans.

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