I think this is the best question:
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Originally Posted by Rerun
Clearly there are parts of the world that are more violent than others. Why is that?
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So much time and effort goes into classifying and blaming one group or another, when in the end it doesn't really matter one bit.
Unless one is claiming that one genetically similar group of people is actually superior to another, it boils down to environment.
Religions are comprised of people. Cultures are comprised of people. Races are comprised of people. Countries are comprised of people. And people are interchangeable, if you took 1000 people born in Calgary and magically exchanged them with 1000 people born in whatever you care to define as the "worst" religion/culture/whatever would the end results be any different? I can't see how, the same % of them will still end up as extremists.
People's beliefs (religious, cultural, moral, etc) are formed as they grow, so I think it's kind of a waste of time to blame people, or even to blame the religion or the culture since those are just ideas and beliefs that are passed down when one is at their most credulous, and blaming an idea is like blaming a knife for cutting you.