I can get behind murder. I feel like this, to some extend, is a genuine part of human behaviour. Even the horrific aftermath of such. But genocide truly feels inhuman to me. So I can never fundamentally understand how in history, civilizations went from point A to point B to Point Genocide. Any thoughts on this?

  • Aux@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Imagine the stone age. Your tribe is running out of food, but there’s a nearby tribe with plenty of it. You group up, visit them during the night, murder them all and steal their food. This is pretty much a genocide. And it’s part of our nature. Always was, always will be.

    • stegosaur5491@lemm.ee
      2·
      3 months ago

      But that’s the thing, I guess. When is the point reached, when I want food turns into I want to destroy a whole or maybe at least a part of a people?

      • Aux@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        Killing others is always at the back of our minds, it’s just that different people have different triggers to do so. The amount of people killed doesn’t really matter.