Anyone can be made to commit atrocities in an environment shaped the right way. If I grew up like these people, I'm sure I would pull the trigger in exactly the same situations.

But it still would take my cooperation. I can only pull the trigger if I'm somehow made to want it, at some level. Or at least if I'm made to think I have no choice.

By emphasising our individual ethical responsibilities -- the simple fact that it takes some amount of cooperation for a person to do anything at all, we are creating a small obstacle in the way of creating a dangerous environment that can turn me into an assassin.

I can easily imagine that we achieve world peace within 50 years through two very simple economic reforms but I can't imagine that it will actually happen.

That’s not a world that I, as a Westerner, would want to live in.

That’s definitely not a world I’d want to live in.

Tracing the cirlce of violence back you can only state, that it has always been this way but that is also just a weak excuse of affective apes.

That is incredibly arrogant look at the world.

I think hell would freeze over before those three teamed up.

The 'detached black and white' view of the world us how we got here in the first place.

Clinging to moral absolutes and trying to frame real life in that rigid framework is a lazy/irresponsible way to be efficient. If you don't have to worry about the details (truth), decisions seem easier.

I'd rather clean toilets my whole life than build a career on the death of innocents.