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But I, for one, have never crushed anyone's skull for power and wealth (mine or anyone else's), and I'm not sure I know anyone who has, and the net quantity of skullcrushing per person seems to be decreasing over time despite the extremely nasty skullcrushing bonanzas of the early-to-mid 20th century.
I'm not sure if the user you are replying to meant it like this, but it would make sense that your ancestors did plenty of the "skull-crushing" for you (in a sense), and that is why you are here today. The colonialism and use of violence in the past is why you enjoy the life you do today.
The colonialism and use of violence in the past is why you enjoy the life you do today.
Maybe so. Also, the single-celled-ness of my distant ancestors was an essential step to the form of life I now have; their primitivity is (part of) why I enjoy the life I do today. This observation doesn't in the least lead me to wish I were a single-celled life form, nor to see single-celled life forms as somehow my superiors, nor to anticipate a future reversion to single cells in my descendants.
If your suggestion is that since some of my ancestors were skullcrusher...