Depictions of medieval torture bothers me deeply also, the knowledge that we as a species have no inherent, hardwired value for lives of others to the degree that people devised the most horrific ways to inflict unimaginable suffering on others for thousands of years… and the knowledge that we are the same creature as them, our brains are identical, they weren’t inhuman monsters, they were the same as you and me, the only thing keeping us from going back to flaying people and sawing them in half as slowly as possible is cultural standards and our flimsiest education system, which is currently dying in many parts of the world.
We seem to have some basic instincts that prevent us from doing harm to other humans even if we don’t know them.
Military and fascists have to go to extreme lengths to de-hunanize their opponents so their pawns inflict maximum damage regardless of instincts.
In the same way that nature documentaries do all they can to anthromopo… ahh I don’t have a dictionary, I mean assign human traits to non-human animals so we feel extra sad or happy for them.
Depictions of medieval torture bothers me deeply also, the knowledge that we as a species have no inherent, hardwired value for lives of others to the degree that people devised the most horrific ways to inflict unimaginable suffering on others for thousands of years… and the knowledge that we are the same creature as them, our brains are identical, they weren’t inhuman monsters, they were the same as you and me, the only thing keeping us from going back to flaying people and sawing them in half as slowly as possible is cultural standards and our flimsiest education system, which is currently dying in many parts of the world.
We seem to have some basic instincts that prevent us from doing harm to other humans even if we don’t know them.
Military and fascists have to go to extreme lengths to de-hunanize their opponents so their pawns inflict maximum damage regardless of instincts.
In the same way that nature documentaries do all they can to anthromopo… ahh I don’t have a dictionary, I mean assign human traits to non-human animals so we feel extra sad or happy for them.