- 9-million people murdered by the Catholic Church as "witches" in the Burning Times of the late 1400s.
- 9-million Jews, Russians, gypsies, and gays murdered by the Nazis and Fascists of the mid-1900s.
- How many natives were killed by European settlers in the Western Hemisphere?
- How many Africans were captured and turned into property to be bought and sold like a mule or cow?
- In earlier times, we had mobs of murderers from such places as Mongolia, Scandinavia, Greece, and Rome.
I wonder what it is about our species that makes us want to go on these rampages once or twice each century.
We aren't homo sapiens. We are homo maraudius... rampagiens maximus.
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