all of this is entirely human. look at what we do to one another
ever been to one of those medieval torture museums? i went to that one in Rothenberg where that cannibal guy who cut of that other guy's penis lived. on the Tauber? i think...
i've said before that human beings are capable of behaving like angels or monsters, the entire spectrum from graceful empathy to horrifying cruelty -- it just depends on the situation.
so to say "human nature" is cruel and evil is just as absurd as saying it is loving and peaceful.
remember that failure of an argument that humans are selfish by nature because if 4 people are in a room all starving and there is only 1 piece of bread they would all fight for it?
to that i say what if 4 people are in a room and have just taken ecstasy? observations of them would lead to the conclusion that human "nature" is blissfully happy.