It's possible that more inbred clannish societies have smaller moral circles than Western outbreeders.
The history of the European takeover of the Americas and the damn near genocide of somewhere between tens and hundreds of millions of people in the process, and the history of the resultant societies, should disavow everyone here of any laughable claims of ethnic superiority in this regard. I also strongly suspect that the European diaspora of the Americas and elsewhere just hasn't had enough time for the massive patchwork of tribalisms to inevitably crystallize out of the liquid wave of disruptive post-genocide settlement that happened over the last few hundred years, and instead we only have a few very large groups in this hemisphere that are coming to hate each other so far. Though sometimes I suspect the small coal mining town my parents escaped from could be induced to have race riots between the Poles and Italians.
Also... Germany. Enough said.
EDIT: Not directed at you, bramflakes, but at the whole thread here... how in all hell am I seeing so much preening smug superiority on display here? Humans are brutal murderous monkeys under the proper conditions. No one here is an exception at all except through accidents of space and time, and even now we all reading this are benefiting from systems which exploit and kill others and are for the most part totally fine with them or have ready justifications for them. This is a human thing.
how in all hell am I seeing so much preening smug superiority on display here?
We have a right to feel morally superior to ISIS, although probably not on genetic grounds.
No one here is an exception at all except through accidents of space and time
But is this true? Do some people have genes which strongly predispose them against killing children. It feels to me like I do, but I recognize my inability to properly determine this.
...and even now we all reading this are benefiting from systems which exploit and kill others and are for the most part total
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