passages-own-species-merely-budget-press-office

# Your own species does not merely kill. It... > {{Your own species does not merely kill. It contemplates the killing before breakfast, postpones it until Tuesday, retains counsel, constructs a philosophical justification, recruits accomplices, manufactures the weapon, draws the map, selects the hour, rehearses the explanation, and then sleeps afterward without difficulty.}} Jane Goodall's proposition was that humans can plan evil while fully understanding the harm, and Richard Wrangham's work on coalitionary killing traces an unusually high human capacity for lethal violence back through the primate line. The chimpanzee can be vicious for an afternoon. The human ape adds abstraction, bureaucracy, memory, ideology, engineering and long-range planning. {{The chimpanzee kills a neighbor. The human kills a province.}} {{The human animal did not transcend savagery. It gave savagery a calendar, a budget and a press office.}} **Source:** [[books/Chimping Out|Chimping Out]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Your own species does not merely kill. It contemplates the killing before breakfast, postpones it until Tuesday, retains counsel, constructs a philosophical justification, recruits accomplices, manufactures the weapon, draws the map, selects the hour, rehearses the explanation, and then sleeps afterward without difficulty. Jane Goodall's proposition was that humans can plan evil while fully understanding the harm, and Richard Wrangham's work on coalitionary killing traces an unusually high human capacity for lethal violence back through the primate line. The chimpanzee can be vicious for an afternoon. The human ape adds abstraction, bureaucracy, memory, ideology, engineering and long-range planning. The chimpanzee kills a neighbor. The human kills a province. The human animal did not transcend savagery. It gave savagery a calendar, a budget and a press office.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-own-species-merely-budget-press-office ```