I can't get out of my mind that "Only humans hate entire groups of people."
Try to imagine dogs or cats or other animals hating large groups of their own kind, who they've never met, for no reason other than that they've been propagandized against the Bad Group.
Imagine dogs or cats imposing pain, suffering, and even death on others of their kind solely because of that propaganda. Imagine them working together to commit genocide against the hated group of strangers.
This -- the human capacity for unreasoning hatred of entire groups of people -- is a flaw or weakness in humanity that has been carefully exploited by those who wish to control others and to gather more wealth and power for themselves.
That's Good and Evil in a nutshell, right there: hatred of others, fanned to bonfilre levels in people who would likely have emotionally healthy (or at least less neurotic) lives had they not been lured into such madness.
Jesus' worldly teachings -- on love for others, on compassion, on not offending children -- on sanity, really -- stand In stark contrast to what the Enemy is doing to Mankind, which is reason enough for me to support Christianity (which I grew up in) as well as other religions (Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism, etc) that also support love and compassion instead of, say, violent Jihad (there are other meanings for that word, but hatred and violence are the problem).
John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Also:
Matthew: 18:1 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? 18:2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, 18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 18:4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 18:5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Mark: 10:13: And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. 10:14: But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. 10:15: Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.
Luke: 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Below, a slightly longer version of the quote in the post title:
Much about modern humans, however, doesn't fit cleanly into kin selection or reciprocal altruism. Sure humans are clearly biased towards their own kin. But people still regularly help strangers without expecting anything in return. ... Humans are, relative to other animals, by far the most altruistic to unrelated strangers.
Of course, humans are also one of the cruelest species. Only humans will make incredible personal sacrifices to impose pain and suffering on others. Only humans commit genocide. Only humans hate entire groups of people.
From A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains by Max Bennet
Dolphins will kill for fun. And they look so happy about it, too.
Cats and other predator species often kill for reasons other than food, and while we can't ask them why, my guess is that they are simply exercising their hunt / kill instinct -- the same way people follow their instinct to run even when they don't have anywhere specific to go. You see this also in the play of predator species; kittens and puppies practice chasing each other down and pouncing on and wrestling with the "victim".
That's very different from humans being taught to hate large groups of others who they don't even know and who are not a threat.
You're kidding, right? The Woke left thinks every one of us on this board is a Nazi, they think the President is a Nazi, they thought Charlie Kirk was a Nazi, and so on.
Are YOU a threat to Democrats? Are you planning to hurt some blue-haired Woke moron next you see them? No? Of course not. We are NOT a threat to them in any real way; we welcome them (if they're well behaved) into MAGA gatherings, etc.
Yet every day, I read about (or see in a video) Woke, far-left people who want to kill or harm or cancel MAGA people.
And then there are the extremist Muslims, who think all infidels should be forcibly converted, raped, killed, or otherwise subjugated.
The horrific Operation Crimson Mist in Rwanda, just a beta test, thats all.
Animals don't have the ability or sentience to hate. I do believe dogs can love tho
Yes, dogs -- and all other mammals, I believe -- can love.
Cruelty is a human concept as is hate. Animals aren't cruel and they don't hate, they are simply animals. Their sole purpose is to survive as a species.
To Quote C.S. Lewis, to answer your statement: humans are the cruelest species.
"Why did God make a creature of such rotten stuff that it went wrong?"
The better stuff a creature is made of—the cleverer and stronger and freer it is—then the better it will be if it goes right, but also the worse it will be if it goes wrong.
A cow cannot be very good or very bad; a dog can be both better and worse; a child better and worse still; an ordinary man, still more so; a man of genius, still more so; a superhuman spirit best—or worst—of all
IOW - Under FREE WILL, without the potential to be evil, we would not be capable of doing good.
I agree with that. Nicely expressed, also, MuckeyDuck.
I also agree with author Max Bennet's idea (the one I quoted in my post) that our high capacity for altruism REQUIRES that we have an instinct to punish those who wrongly take advantage of that instinct -- and that this "punishing" instinct can be corrupted into hating others, including entire classes of people, who we are propagandized to hate.
We see free will being exercised in a positive way when (for instance) Muslims overcome their programming and leave that faith after deciding they'd rather experience the brotherhood of Man -- after sensing love of others and not wanting to hate most of humanity for no good reason -- than remain as part of a group that insists on murder and other crime against innocent people.
Islam tells their faithful that leaving the faith earns someone a death sentence, so it takes some serious metaphorical balls to make THAT choice.
I heard something that made me chuckle the other day...
Racists are the most diverse group there really is. Doesn't matter what color you are, so long as your racist!
Blacks, browns, yellows, reds, ....oh almost forgot...whites. Lots of choices in order to be rassisst.
Chihuahas are also full of hate.
u/#catdance
I mean this is almost entirely predicated on the fact our experience only extends as far as humans. Aside from hamfisted attempts at allegory in stories.
Though you could argue that groups of animals outright hate each other.
Hyenas and Lions for example will make every attempt to screw each other over
IDK...if you took a pack of wild wolves and tossed a chihuahua in their midst, the wolves would kill the small dog and eat it. I don't think they would bring it into their pack and nurture it. Would that be a type of animal rascism?
I bet the chihuahua would put up a helluva fight.
Before it was killed and eaten...
The origin of that...chosen ones. It inverts each singular one's choice into a conflicting plurality.
Indeed and spot on.
To further explain: our reality is constructed on a dichotomy model… up can’t exist without down to define it (and visa versa).
So, as a global controller, all I need to do is insure the sway always trends one way or the other. Currently, we have been enduring pressure towards a negative, angry and confused trajectory. It was one big trick! And it worked. Everybody hates somebody… an extremely stupid idea! Yet…
It is time to step out of the trap the trick set for us. Indeed, imagine that! That collective imagination changes the trajectory immediately!
Makes sense...and if you link this theory to a giant pool of consciousness we all share, you can take it 1 step further and theorize the "global controller"'s mission is to ultimately darken our shared consciousness further by creating chaos, misery, despair, violence, etc.. keep us from breaking from the matrix and having a deeper connection with our source - God.
In my opinion (and I'm not alone in this), the original sin was instilling the belief that any human being can be seperated from God. We can't. Even the worst of us, in order to exist at all, must be imbued with this life essence. If you investigate deeply, you will discover that all theologies with the dichotomy of good vs evil is based on this one "seperation" assumption. It is incorrect.
I agree with you. Even in our own bodies there are stuff we do not want or try to cut out like illness, that C word, etc.. and God's wish if this is so is for the entire "body" to be perfect.. to elevate ourselves, ascension, WWG1WGA
Humans are vessels. Unless you fill it with the Holy Spirit to help you fight spiritual warfare within you daily, things/evil spirits will find opportunities to infiltrate, and in the case of children, teenagers, adults, they feed on their negative energy..fear, anger, insecurity, broken homes, abuse, indoctrination..you name it.. these Liberals dems have completely lost their way, completely lost themselves. This is what we're witnessing now. it's mental, biological, parasitic sure..but the primary cause is the spirits dwelling IN them.