Our discussion of mankind's thirst for blood really made sense to me today. I think that humans were born with the urge, like all animals, to protect and defend what is theirs (food, mating, space), but our society has evolved rapidly in the last several hundred years. Rapidly enough, that evolution has not had the time to catch up with the constraints that our society puts on us. Therefore, we have a burning desire to kill without acceptable outfits for us to channel our instincts. I think that when you combine this desire with some reason for us to start a war, our society jumps at the chance to enact our drives that are usually suppressed. The author is right that we have become more sophisticated and barbaric for our killings. A few hundred years ago, we killed for "justice" using things like the guillotine, but now we have mass-killings every day, because our society has no appropriate outlets for our urges. In my opinion, we are an inherently dangerous species and a bomb waiting to explode.
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