>i agree those incidents happen. and they're minimal and
>whenever they happen or wherever ppl are rightly outraged and
>appalled.
>
>i don't agree that we are 'naturally inclined' to commit those
>acts. i see them as anomalies in the human existence.

infanticide/ genocide?

see: any and all (or at least most) dictators

cannibalism?

see: papa doc

and all the while the world at large turned a blind eye to these atrocities until the heat/fire rose too high to ignore.

minimal you say? Nooooo, sir.