PBS Brief but Spectacular, Bryan Stevenson: America's racial terrorism, 'our silence condemned us"

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11. Man's cruelty to man still amazes me.

I watched a recent episode of "Origins: The Journey of Humankind" (NatGeo) that delved into the history of war, and Genghis Khan's army often killed everyone they attacked.

The episode implied that war became more problematic after humans settled down as agriculturalists, but I'm not sure that I accept it. Nomads committed atrocities against other nomads in order to plunder as well.

And, of course, that show had to make war seem like a good thing in a way -- e.g., for supposedly mixing different cultures and knowledge together. Uh huh. As if we need war and death for that to happen!