DAMN IT I HATE HUMANS,
Labels are a matter of geography, upbringing, social norms, and era. Long term though they have nothing to do with our evolutionary behavior in that we have always been as a species capable of both cruelty and compassion.
If we want to lean more as a species to non violence and pluralism, we cannot get stuck on how others might hurt us in the moment. Yes we should remember those things absolutely. But again, power shifts over time and to assume that because we are being hurt now will preclude us from hurting others in the future is a mistake.
Ultimately we still are the same species.
Labels are a matter of geography, upbringing, social norms, and era. Long term though they have nothing to do with our evolutionary behavior in that we have always been as a species capable of both cruelty and compassion.
If we want to lean more as a species to non violence and pluralism, we cannot get stuck on how others might hurt us in the moment. Yes we should remember those things absolutely. But again, power shifts over time and to assume that because we are being hurt now will preclude us from hurting others in the future is a mistake.
Ultimately we still are the same species.