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sethammons on Oct 1, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: My friend starts her job today, after learning to ...

I agree. Given some circumstance or set of them, the overwhelming vast majority of people are capable of extreme violence.

What is scary is those who enjoy violence and causing harm. My grandma worked in the next cube over from a guy for years. "Nicest guy ever." He spent his weekends cutting people into parts and mailing the the parts around.

sarchertech on Oct 1, 2020 [–]

> Given some circumstance or set of them, the overwhelming vast majority of people are capable of extreme violence.

If you consider circumstances where society would generally consider violence justified then maybe.

Historically even in combat only a small percentage of people would intentionally shoot to kill.

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