It’s saddening that so many people devote their short lives on spreading hatred and violence when they could be putting efforts into furthering the human race
I think it’s that these people actually really like inequality.
Furthering the human race involves helping other people, so a lot of effort is diluted into everyone, and ‘me and people like me might not benefit more than others’. Scapegoating an outgroup means reducing the status of others, so that ‘me and people like me will end up being elevated over that group’.
This preference for harming others is then turned into a potent political weapon, because hatred is still a legitimate political position. And, as long as it is so, I expect humans to hate themselves into irrelevance.
<span style="color:#323232;">If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you. — Lyndon Johnson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy)
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