(July 15, 2013 at 9:20 am)thesummerqueen Wrote:(July 14, 2013 at 6:08 pm)Chuck Wrote: BTW, It is hard to argue the Europeans were more murderous than other races. When confronted with the opportunity and means to kill someone to gain one's own ends, hardly can it be argued that other race would have dived into it with any less relish and lust than Europeans.
Case in point, I've been reading "The Disappearing Spoon" and there's a very interesting passage about the genocide going on that was aided by European money solely by the fact that Europeans were buying minerals that the Congo had, and the Congo residents, instead of using that money to build their communities in a positive light, used it to purchase weapons and commit further atrocities in the name of tribal warfare.
People lack only the means, not the motive.
Indeed, in 1994, non-european rowandans killed, mostly with machetes, a million of their fellow non-european countrymen in just 100 days, during the rowandans genocide. Nazis, armed with modern industrial technology and organization, never equalled this rate of body count accumulation even at the very height of holocaust. Murderous degenerates?
