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Originally Posted By: ultramarina
I'm sure someone could easily make an argument that we are genetically predisposed to discriminate/war against the Other, however you define that.


Didn't take long.

No, it did not. And whether or not we find one of these "Well, you see, it's very natural...biologically based...but we need to rise above it" arguments more or less valid than the other, I find them both a risky place to start from when talking to children about inequality. I'm not a fan of sociobiological explanations for human behavior, in case you can't tell. As I like to say to my husband, mammals also eat their young, but nobody goes around justifying THAT.