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In reply to the discussion: For the first 49 years of my life, I wondered how the Holocaust could have happened. [View all]DaisyTom
(57 posts)12. we need a lot more study and understanding of cognitive science
seems like bad people intuitively know how to manipulate the human psyche
we need real tools to understand, recognize and combat this
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For the first 49 years of my life, I wondered how the Holocaust could have happened. [View all]
soothsayer
Sep 2020
OP
An almost universal theme is the replacement of hunter/gatherers by agriculturalists
Klaralven
Sep 2020
#8
And now the workers/hunters/gatherers by technologists and vulture capitalists.
erronis
Sep 2020
#20
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." (Voltaire)
The Velveteen Ocelot
Sep 2020
#4
Today the Rohingya in Myanmar are being raped and slaughtered by their government.
Marcuse
Sep 2020
#46
believers of 2 similar relgious groups conspire to kill members of a different religious group.
msongs
Sep 2020
#6
Read John Dean's New Book if you want to understand what in human nature allows
Darwin2019
Sep 2020
#33
I was going through the same exercise last night, as I noted in the history forum here:
NNadir
Sep 2020
#34