Senor Barborito wrote:

What, you think we've evolved at all since the Romans going bezerk while tens of gladiators died for their amusement? Fuck, not only are we working off the same genepool, we've inherited a significant amount of our culture from them. We're exhibitionists, bread-and-circus unevolved simians every last one. It's a great irony that the so-called 'savages' we wiped out on this continent seem to have had a lot more respect for life than the 'civilized' men who've replaced them - but that observation has been made so many times it's become a platitude. It seems to me that increasing civilization dehumanizes and places the onus of natural selection upon tools rather than creators.