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Where exactly am I saying it's something to do with human ethnic origins? Where exactly am I nodding or advocating for eugenics or other bigoted concepts?

Because my point is about the innermost human nature, imbued within every human that ever existed, exists and will exist. When, for example, Thomas Hobbes says "Humans are wolves to humans", he's not saying about a specific race or gender, he's talking about the Homo sapiens. All of us, since humans discovered fire and became "fearsome" to other lifeforms holding this warm thing we think we can control.

It goes with saying how the fact that there are bigoted people using this science to try and "validate" eugenics (and how there are bigoted people in the first place) is, ironically enough, another evidence of how humans are wolves to themselves. It's like I said in a previous reply, billionaires (and far-right figures) aren't extraterrestrials or lizards, they're humans with enough power to let their evilness affect other humans. Given enough power, many other humans are likely to pave similar paths.

Yes, not everyone, the end of Derren Brown's "The Push" documentary shows how there are situations where humans can end up not ceding to their impulses to harm others in order to save their own skin.

But even when we choose to do good and help others (and this includes caring for the wellbeing of the unborn so they don't suffer the consequences of current humanity's actions) despite our own wellbeing, our wolves are still there, lurking inside us, because it's born with us.

This doesn't invalidate "Homo homini lupus est", just shows how we sometimes get to be less of a wolf. The first step is letting go of our antropocentrism, our way of seeing the whole cosmos as if it depended and was centered on us humans, and starting to see things anachronistically, beyond human existence, and realizing how we're just a speck in this cosmic timeline, just wandering star dust.