Comments on: The essential human foundations of genocide http://blog.oup.com/2013/02/foundations-of-genocide/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Wed, 22 May 2013 20:11:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Robert http://blog.oup.com/2013/02/foundations-of-genocide/#comment-360615 Robert Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:16:38 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=35166#comment-360615 It doesn't matter who gets into the winner's circle or how: the winners, their genes, are rewarded by natural selection. By corollary, genocide is rewarded by natural selection. There are no philosophical answers to human nature, to the man's inhumanity to man other than biogenetically refashioninig himself into a more rational, kinder and gentler species It doesn’t matter who gets into the winner’s circle or how: the winners, their genes, are rewarded by natural selection. By corollary, genocide is rewarded by natural selection. There are no philosophical answers to human nature, to the man’s inhumanity to man other than biogenetically refashioninig himself into a more rational, kinder and gentler species

]]> By: Nathaniel Wenger http://blog.oup.com/2013/02/foundations-of-genocide/#comment-358532 Nathaniel Wenger Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:46:58 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=35166#comment-358532 Instate wengerocracy so it never happens again or just say never again and sound like an idiot to start the day. Instate wengerocracy so it never happens again or just say never again and sound like an idiot to start the day.

]]> By: Annie Morgan http://blog.oup.com/2013/02/foundations-of-genocide/#comment-358025 Annie Morgan Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:45:35 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=35166#comment-358025 Why do you leave out North America and most of Europe? People on both continents have, at times, equalled the horrors of those benighted countries you mentioned. Do you root out religion first? Where do you start? It is impossible to believe that humans will change into something different - there will always be the leaders, always the mindless followers, always in the name of some Thing. Tribalism, and its partner the herd instinct, is primal, (something the North American world, it seems to me, finds hard to understand). My only qualification for daring to post in this erudite category is my age (82), and that my awareness of the horrors people do to others started in my early teens reading about the holocaust. What "...must never happen again." has happened, and is happening, in some form or other, everywhere. I cannot see it ever stopping. Why do you leave out North America and most of Europe? People on both continents have, at times, equalled the horrors of those benighted countries you mentioned.

Do you root out religion first? Where do you start?

It is impossible to believe that humans will change into something different – there will always be the leaders, always the mindless followers, always in the name of some Thing. Tribalism, and its partner the herd instinct, is primal, (something the North American world, it seems to me, finds hard to understand).

My only qualification for daring to post in this erudite category is my age (82), and that my awareness of the horrors people do to others started in my early teens reading about the holocaust. What “…must never happen again.” has happened, and is happening, in some form or other, everywhere. I cannot see it ever stopping.

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