No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
We are not by nature cruel.