Reply #38: well, I think it's what people do as a group. [View All]

[bhunt70]

I hate to say it but like you said, throughout history all empires have done it. It's not just empires that do it either. Take ANY social group and you will have a pecking order, that pecking order inherently will place someone at the top and someone(or some group) at the bottom. I would think there would be very few social settings that didn't conform to this mold. Once that happens all it takes is for the person at the bottom of the pile to get a little fed up.

It doesn't make it right but I feel thats the way it is. The most we can hope for is to learn as a group to not keep perpetuating the same mistakes.

"Why did you have to keep doing the same dumb things??"

Well, it's not like I woke up this morning and whipped the slaves before annexing the neighborhood down the street.