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TreasonousBastard

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8. I think we still are to some extent...

Reply to pampango (Reply #6)

Fri Oct 9, 2015, 09:54 AM

Oct 2015

It all goes back to the "Watch out for whatever's in Cave #23."

Our ape ancestors aren't particularly welcoming of outsiders coming in to share/steal food and females, and we haven't fully shed the habit.

Should at least be an interesting discussion amongst any experts in the field.

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Your opinion please [View all] yuiyoshida Oct 2015 OP

I was just thinking about ignorance this morning Sanity Claws Oct 2015 #1

I think it's a bit more complicated than that... TreasonousBastard Oct 2015 #2

Are we hard-wired that there has to be a group(s) of humans who are "THEM" whom we have to pampango Oct 2015 #6

I think we still are to some extent... TreasonousBastard Oct 2015 #8

it is ignorance, but the root cause of that ignorance can vary person to person - so many variables. NRaleighLiberal Oct 2015 #3

Also from having no sense of self worth other than one's genitals, color, nationality, etc. Divernan Oct 2015 #4

"one's genitals, color, nationality, etc." IOW, where one is born and what one is born with. pampango Oct 2015 #7

Ignorance, arrogance and Faux pas Oct 2015 #5

We all are born into... CanSocDem Oct 2015 #9