Okay, that was awful.
TS, I totally agree with you. We have to view ourselves as animals, because that is what we are. Like any other social animal group, without the existence of strong leadership and harsh discipline, we lapse into chaos. (As we have just unfortunately seen.) As a species, we must have direction in our morality, and is thus why religion is so popular to begin with. It offers direction and consequences for those falling outside of the prescribed imposed morality.
There are several examples in the last century when people have found themselves stranded in poor circumstances, whether in freezing conditions or just lacking basic neccessities, when humans revert right back to basic animal instincts. A person that would never even comprehend something such as cannabalism will not think twice if it means survival. Not eating each other is a morality that is taught, not one that we are born knowing.
As long as we keep denying ourselves the truth of what we are and continue to push the responsibility off to "God", we will never be able to continue in our growth as a species. We must hold accountable those that we have allowed to be Alpha in our social structures in order to effect change in our distinctive packs. And for those in areas like where this was filmed, we have to find an effective way to establish hierarchies that will be successful in bringing together these particular groups with imposed morality that benefits (and doesn't strangle) their society.
Okay, I just rambled again, but this is an issue near and dear to me. It drives me crazy that religion is so often used as a weapon against each other (she was stoned because they thought she was a whore?!?!) rather than do what it was originally intended to do which is to bring people together.
What if the greatest trick the Devil ever played on us was to make us believe he is God? If so, he has succeeded in more death and misery in the name of God that he ever could as the Devil. Just something to think about...
