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> Cruelty and contempt for the weak is a specifically human trait

Is this true? I think there are many counter examples. eg birds tossing out offspring from their nest.

This isn't true. Also the book "Sapiens" goes a bit into how cruel ancient humans in the Americas would be to some of the weaker offspring. So it's not 'new' in the sense of last few thousand years either. I think there's been a lot of personalities and cultures over the last 300k years that approach this differently.

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