Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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