Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "The biology of our best and worst selves | Robert Sapolsky" video.

  1. Read the book, or listen to a ton of other lectures or talks given by Sapolsky. These ideas are also featured in a series of documentaries called "Unnatural Causes" which is very enlightening.
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  2. You go through life looking to moments to say that without really thinking, so maybe you didn't learn a thing
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  3. I think an eye for an eye plus interest is fine ... the problem is that it has historically been done without any kind of due process. Creating justice is often extremely difficult if not impossible, which is why modern states seem to care more about keeping work and business going. The result of that is if you happen to be a victim of crime or violence, such as those My Lai victims there is no justice. The soldiers at My Lai were given minimal sentences .. and when you look at the Viet Nam war itself what was it but a huge crime that killed millions of people and destroyed land and peolpe's futures with birth defects and cancers from Agent Orange. This brings to the focus to our societies and countries, and do they interact any better or worse than people do? Human beings are so far from being intelligent or civilized it is amazing that we think of ourselves as such.
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  4. Occam's Razor says that we can study crime, violence and evil better if we stick to the data and facts and leave out things like God that only complicate things.
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