Falcon29
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Unfortunately outside of a minority of people who can try to look at global issues from an objective standpoint, most people act how you are describing. Most people believe that their grievances are superior to those of the "enemy". Most common soldiers and their populations believe they are acting justly, either due to human nature, indoctrination from their government, or everything else our governments do to ensure their citizens will fight any attempt to remove them.
The vast majority of the time, I would bet it is nurture that forms these opinions, not nature.
I bet you could take any person in this thread who says they approve of executing "gays", and if you changed the location they were born in, and the influences they gravitated to during their impressionable years, they would have a completely different outlook. It would be hard to convince me it is just a coincidence that the common denominator for this type of behavior is geographical location. Religion can't be blamed.
Agreed, it's just shocking with technology at our fingertips and ever increasing social media services we still have the same results with the vast majority of people looking at global and social issues from one standpoint.