There are two types of people in this world: those who will grasp for words and inevitably reach the word 'God', and those who make up their own new words when the edge of reality is reached. They both spill blood, they both live with unconsciously-manifested delusions of the conscious mind... both metaphorically and literally, they do what they do. Both types are part of humanity.
Some people trust that logic is the best path to salvation, others disagree and instead believe that the divine truth basks in a sea of pure chaos, its secrets unravelable by humans. There are those who believe in a being in the sky, those who believe in many, and those who believe in none at all.
There are those who believe in nothing and who will vehemently contradict anything that they have previously said solely for the sake of preserving that which is The Now. These people undoubtedly fight a lot. We'd expect them to, at certain times, have a pretty violent society. At times, they probably beat their children, and when their children get older, they probably return the favor. The best conditions to live in? No, but in these conditions, these people live. This example may be slightly convoluted, but hear the rest of this out before you call me a hypothetical question-asker.
Many times in history, whole swaths of civilization have been driven away from the safety of their homes and run into the hills, the swamps, the deserts, wherever... people as a whole have even been driven behind walls, to live until something else happens. From the inside, it would seem to them that their swath of humanity, their religion, culture -- that which makes them distinct and whole and good and stuff has been destroyed. Battlestar Galactica, the
Sanctuary District from DS9, the Jews in Warsaw. These groups of people have desperation written all over their faces... they're witnessing the truth of their own mortality. One final division before I get where I'm going with this: those who have hope for the future will continue to have children, while the rest will find their Quietus(tm) (Children of Men, WATCH IT), and blink out of existence forever.
Men of the man in the sky do not give up hope and so would never force genocide on a people (at least the true followers wouldn't). Those who follow Darwin would have to agree; nature is best at sorting out the genes, so we have no place interfering in the affairs of other humans. This big block of violent child-rearers, well, they have an inalienable right to procreation, we can't just cut their balls off. Religions of non-interference would also agree to forego this act of genocide. And so finally we come to the bottom of the moral barrel here: egotistical Social Darwinists. I'll lump the lost followers of Dogma in this batch too, for good measure.
From this cesspool of morals, there exist some people who wouldn't just
forego genocide, they'd genocide
for ego. If you're one of those people who leads with your ego, well, take this as you will. Me? I just trust my gut, and right now, it wants me to empty it. No, I'm not being figurative.
-n
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