SCIENCE said:

Cymek said:

party_pants said:

I guess I am quite similar. My basic philosophy is that of naturalism. On human evolution I think that humans have evolved two natures: one nasty selfish and brutal, and the other empathetic cooperative and social. We have the choice in our conscious mind as to which side we follow. I am not sure it can be bred or engineered out of us.

Seems true
We see examples of the most horrible cruelty and the most selfless actions of kindness and generosity from humans.
I suppose its in all of us like you say to make that conscious choice, harder for some if nurture has taught them nothing but cruelty.
Can understand how these terrorist groups evolve if they grew up in a war zone, life is cheap, might is right, replace one form of oppression with another that you control.

so it’s a good time to post these again we suppose

and so forth

Plus you could even include worship of Jupiter as physics suggests it’s likely to have pulled in or diverted comets that could have hit Earth