You can literally see the "let's just kill everybody and rape all their women" trope through every single age of human civilization It's like it's a problem of evil that every generation and society must face, and fight against
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It's what all war is ultimately about: replacing the DNA of the losers with that of the winners, the same as invasive plant species
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I also think there's an existential piece to it, both making a sacrifice to death but also believing, for a while, that causing death gives you power over it It's incomprehensibly ugly and false, but it's old psychological magic
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