Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "The women sharing their memories of Ukraine before the Russian invasion - BBC News" video.
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While I uphold the right of people to act in self-defence in the face of any aggressor, the nationalist thinking underpinning much of what is going on here doesn’t serve us as a species, as the bloody annals of history clearly show. The essential cause of all this trouble (and the trouble of mankind since the year dot), is hitching your core identity to an accident of birth. Main problem of humans is one of self-definition; before ‘human being’ too many of us want to put family, clan, tribe, nation, religion. This is, essentially, why we can’t tolerate one another. Most of us can’t raise our game to see that a random, arbitrary accident of birth, something in which you had no say, is a nonsensical, irrational, pointless, and very, very dangerous notion to cleave to, given 300,000 murderously squabbling years of Homo Sapiens. Along with imagined daddies in the sky to shore up our fear of death, nationalism is the most egregious, baleful blight human beings ever had the misfortune to invent. As we speak, insular human beings are murdering themselves over an accident of birth. The gods, if they existed, would look down on us and weep.
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