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If you go back far enough in history someone somewhere in a person's life will have done something awful. Could have been 100, 200, 1000, 10000 years ago.

Because we all have a common ancestor that lived not that long ago[0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

That's a nonsensical argument. My parent comment referred to "peoples" in the plural. Your argument is that there is only one people, which is a contraction. The whole point of the discussion is to compare different peoples.

To grow big enough to survive, most civilisations were/are aggressive.