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Episode 207 - Making Monsters with David Livingstone Smith

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Homo Sapiens Brain

Yeti: We are endowed with powerful inhibitions against these sorts of behavior towards others. But those powerful inhibitions can be overcome. Humanization is one of a number of ways that we, clever primates, have found to selectively disable inhibitions against doing terrible, terrible things to one another. Genecides are virtually invariably moralistic enterprises. The the what would come naturally to us does not apply to thems,. put it that way.

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