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  • That is because selfish greed will always be there, and that causes people to act brutally.
  • Because civilisation is supported by technology; it is not created by it. And I will exempt myself from your statement that 'we' are savage and barbaric. I don't consider myself any such thing.
  • It's called "human nature". We are contradictory beings. Our societies are pushed forward by conflict, as is our technology. It is the time between conflicts where all of the "elevating and enlightening" happens. But without the occasional conflict, such things would stagnate.
  • Human life is a dichotomy. Just as there is yin and yang in Asian cultures, there is this duality in humans. Great ability for compassion, creativity and knowledge but also a balance of destruction, cruelty and barbarism. Two sides of the same coin.

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