(September 22, 2015 at 5:40 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: I'd be delighted to hear an articulate explanation of why anyone would care two hoots about slaughtering a few million people if there was no compelling objective moral reason for them not to do so if they honestly believed it was in their own interest or that of the nation which they were trying to build.
Alpha males get to mate with all the females. Alpha dictators get to kill off all the males who disagree with him.
Such an explanation would involve concepts like empathy and teamwork and evolutionary psychology ... stuff you clearly are at sea dealing with.
Why would anyone bother to remove your misconceptions, when you are so dearly wedded to them? You'll have to take the fingers out of your ears first.