Please tell me you’re not trying to excuse the rape of civilians as “it’s just what humans do”.
It has nothing to do with evolution. These were angry men, taking out their frustration and anger of being drafted, watching their friends die for nothing in a jungle, on the local population. Rather than the government that sent them there in the first place.
The source of their anger fueling their ruthlessness is not evolutionary. It’s manufactured by the ones that sent them there in the first place.
Neither of which justifies rape or mutilation in any way. But it’s why they were capable of doing what they did. Anger and hate.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I’m not excusing it in any way.
I wish I had a way to advance our evolution past this point so that we didn’t have a significant portion of the population that are monsters.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Evolution. You keep using that word. But I don’t think it means what you think it means. Because this has nothing to do with evolution. Why are you trying to make this into some kind of evolutionary instinct?
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
The answer to that is literally the last sentence of my first comment. I’m pretty sure you have a very narrow definition of what evolution means. But even the normal narrow one covers what I said above. It’s practically a textbook case.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
US soldiers in Vietnam raping and mutilating civilians is a textbook case of evolution? What textbooks are you reading?
You are so confidently wrong it’s astonishing. You must know you have no idea what you’re talking about.