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Shane's avatar

Ehrenreich's "Blood Rites" traces these human group instincts even further back. Humans evolved from a prey species but along the way transformed into predators. This demanded profound psychological changes, which are not fully resolved in people today. The prevalence of predatory entities in primitive religions and the universality of human sacrifice likely stem from this foundation. Scapegoating is likely a remnant of an ancient prey group behaviour where an individual is offered to the predator so that the rest can survive.

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Wild Pacific's avatar

So clearly written, because it skips caveats to show a clear undeniable pattern that many of us are taught to file under “taboo”.

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