Writer's Block: Human Nature

[zebulen]

Compassion and Cruelty.

Many evolutionary biologists make compelling cases for how the "altruism gene" developed (beautiful as it is), but I have yet to hear any adequate explanation for the origin of cruelty.  Cruelty seems to go way beyond the basic selfish instinct, or the complete lack of empathy; it is the active, deliberate abuse of other

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[sillyliss]

I never thought about that. It is a fatal flaw...