Who We Are (A Rumination)

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4. Conservative morality is rooted in genocidal mass murder

Since about the time of the agricultural revolution, that is. Before that, people favored their blood relations, and if a sudden loss of food or other survival essentials happened, they'd preferentially kill non-relatives. But over-reproduction followed by deliberately perpetrating genocide on your neighbors was never a social motivating force.

You see this in the Old Testament and other religious texts that appeared when some societies got enough storable food to be worth stealing. Yahweh promised Abraham that his descendants would be more numerous than grains of sand. And where were all those little grains of sand going to live? On their neighbors' real estate of course, after they killed all the men and raped all the women. This moral stance is what conservatives live by.