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A hard-hitting documentary about us - humans. Why do we sometimes become aggressive, feel offended, resort to violence or oppress other people? This film provides the answers. While most similar documentaries deal with a minority - psychopaths - this film deals with the rest of us. Director and producer Staffan J Thorsell shines a bright light on the origins of violence, racism and hatred.
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00:04I believe in the good in human beings.
00:09We are getting better and better.
00:11I mean, we still have our Darwinian background in our brains,
00:16but we are getting more and more civilized,
00:19more and more kind, less and less cruel,
00:21more and more empathetic.
00:22I believe in some kind of light in all of us.
00:30But I've also always been interested in knowing
00:33what in the human condition makes us suppress each other.
00:38People are not born killers.
00:40People are not born haters.
00:42People learn to hate.
00:58When a certain gene variation and a certain environment
01:01meet, there is something completely new.
01:04We start proposing that we have an innate drive
01:08of something in our human nature that pushes us to kill.
01:16This isn't about obedience.
01:19It's followership.
01:39That is true self-awareness.
01:53�� myselfco
01:54.We
01:54got notifications for our human nature. There
01:57ensuring of our human nature to help us start looking for this. And

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