[rbanffy]

We are, after all, a couple centuries of civility pained over millions of years of vicious apes. There are places the varnish is very thin.

[hearsathought]

> We are, after all, a couple centuries of civility pained over millions of years of vicious apes.

Interesting. When were these magical centuries of civility?

[rbanffy]

> When were these magical centuries of civility?

When we realised that in order to live in a society we’d need things like laws, democracy, courts, human rights, and so on. We, as a species, are still working on that and civilisation seems both imperfect and poorly distributed.

[hearsathought]

> When we realised that in order to live in a society we’d need things like laws, democracy, courts, human rights, and so on.

That's odd because the prononents of laws, democracy, courts, human rights, etc have shown to be not so civil. So I ask again which centuries?

> We, as a species, are still working on that and civilisation seems both imperfect and poorly distributed.

So no centuries? You made shit up?

[mistrial9]

no "we" is not accurate.. males of certain tribes were slaughtered at various times very thoroughly. The admixture result is politically toxic to discuss, so it is not discussed.