Good vs. Evil

This piece was certainly interesting. I’ve always wondered why there’s such wide spread apathy towards the suffering in other countries. The explanation that it might be because these people don’t exist in our “tribe” isn’t an excuse but it definitely sheds light. Detachment and “brainwashing” has been a theory for genocide before, but with this study the exact reason for it is explained. I found it ironic that everything (well almost everything) we, as humans, pride ourselves as the only animals capable (such as tools or communication) is mostly untrue. There is also mention of how someday we might be “civilized” which is odd because the majority of humans already believe that, as a species, we are civilized. The author left he article with a positive tone saying that, while there was pain ahead, hopefully most of it was behind us.