Rutger Bregman and Philippe Sands - Are Humans Naturally Good?
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Are We Humans a Superpower?
Philip Klein: We are born with tribalism hard wired into our brains. With that, we then become inclined a sort of xenephobia, an eracism? He says there's really striking evidence for that in archaeology - comparing human skulls from 50, forty, 30, tenty thousand years ago. People who are more ampathetic more often want vengeance when something terrible happens, he argues. And while you humanize those around you, your friends and family members and the people who are from your group, you tend to dehumanize those others.
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