Evolutionarily speaking there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek why for example people would rather make love with an attractive partner than get a slap on the belly with a wet fish.
Steven Pinker
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The supposedly immaterial soul we now know can be bisected with a knife altered by chemicals started or stopped by electricity and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.
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As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent the hatred between them tends to decrease for the simple reason that you cant kill someone and trade with him too.
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