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Not really related, but dolphins are assholes! http://www.deepseanews.com/2013/02/10-reasons-why-dolphins-are-aholes/ http://www.deepseanews.com/2013/02/10-rea

• simonh 11y ago
  Frankly many pre-modern, pre-civilizarion humans were assholes. Read many studies or accounts of life in relatively isolated tribal societies and hair curlingy awful accounts of violent and sometimes institutionalised abuse are uncomfortably common. Leave the safety catches off basic human urges for long and it can get pretty ugly.
  • ceejayoz 11y ago
    > Frankly many pre-modern, pre-civilizarion humans were assholes. While it's somewhat news to me, I'm very glad to hear we've moved past that.
    • Sharlin 11y ago
      I hope that was irony.
      • eru 11y ago
        See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...
        • Sharlin 11y ago
          Yes, I know, it's just completely insane to declare that we've somehow qualitatively moved past our brutish origins as long as torture, rape, and murder remain de facto extensions to politics. I have no reason to doubt that quantitatively we have made some progress - although Pinker's arguments are most definitely not universally accepted in the scientific community.
      • ceejayoz 11y ago
        Very much so. Many modern, "civilized" humans are assholes, and now we've got global audiences for it!