Murder is good. Murder is natural, normal, healthy, desirable, and inevitable. Or at least one could make that claim. One could argue that humanity owes the lion's share of its relatively high level of complexity, sophistication, intelligence, culture, and civilization to it. It might be the chief factor in speeding up human progress and evolution. Natural selection may pale by comparison.

Originally, there were evidently multitudinous hominoid species and subspecies in the world. But as intelligence rose over the course of time and development, there apparently gradually became less room for the various distinct groups. Competition between them became more intense and internecine. In Wild West terms the various proto-human types said "This town ain't big enough for the both of us."

Thus Habilis was heartily extincted by Erectus which was lustily extincted by Neanderthalus which was gleefully extincted by Cro-Magnon which was joyously extincted by the current version. Each successive human prototype was brighter than--and presumably better than--the previous.

And here we are. There's more of this to come, likely.

Even for non-hominids--including our closest relatives--there seems to be sequentially less space for a species as it ascends the food chain and evolutionary pyramid. Thus there are currently hundreds of different types of primates on this earth, but far fewer versions of monkeys, only five varieties of ape, and just one Homo Sapien left. This ferocious and severe winnowing process seems to be the natural order of things.

So it's probable that savage brutal annihilating competition is Mother Nature's best--if not only--way of "uplifting the race" and self-improvement. Especially for people (us). Humanity's main "survival of the fittest" struggles and battles seem to be with itself. Thus we may owe our current specialness and greatness--such as it is--to high criminality and vast social evil.

If that's the case, modern ethnic hatred and race wars--starting with the advent of nationalism in about 1800--may actually be natural, normal, healthy, beneficial, virtuous, etc. And even, amazingly, on a scale far surpassing what we have today. Human history seems to argue this, and so do traditional tribal mores.

It's certainly noteworthy, strange, sad, and ominous that human beings' closest living relatives--wolves, whales, and apes--engage in generally few murders, mass-murders, and wars (i.e. organized mass-murders). This is true both within, and just outside of, the race. This is so despite the fact that all three have a fairly wide variety of similar and rival species.

Humanity's intense, immense, and almost mind-boggling self-destructiveness takes place even absent the natural and reasonable motivations of fierce competition for food and sex. Indeed, it seems to flourish without them. One can't help but notice that mankind evidently reserves its worst and strongest fear, rage, and loathing--not for pain, injury, disease, animal predators, natural disasters, or even death(!) but--for his fellow man. Remarkable.

How ironic that nowadays we contemptuously insultingly liken bad human behavior to that of "wild animals" and "feral beasts," while we arrogantly chauvinistically label good human behavior "humane.

Still, in all fairness to current Western man--which everyone so quickly heavily morally condemns--one must admit that both traditional tribalist societies, and contemporary uncivilized nations, behave much much worse than we do. These lowlifes all commit murder and wage war far more than the relatively non-barbaric somewhat liberal "first world" people. Thus there seems to be hope for humanity. Or at least for Westerners--especially northwest Europeans, ethnically & culturally.

Currently, however, the world still has a vast oversupply of weapons of mass destruction to mix with it's near ubiquitous bigotry and tribalism. This is dreadfully complimented by the obvious presence in our culture of heavy-duty Dark Age illiberalism. Yikes.

To adequately deal with Homo Sapiens' intrinsic bloodlust proclivities, it's worth noting that certain subspecies of humanity may be more naturally civilizable and less murderous than others. There might be good hope in the historically less tribalistic areas of the world: Mesoamerica, India, China, and (obviously) the Eastern Mediterranean.

Even more hope might be found in specifically Greek and Roman areas, ethnically and culturally. These people seem to have domesticated and tamed themselves somewhat. Violently antisocial elements and traits--bad people and/or their bad characteristics--may have been substantially weeded out (exterminated) over time.

And there are still other reasons to be optimistic humans are not ineluctably, or even inherently, murderous.

Nowadays, most people seem genuinely, naturally, profoundly disturbed, repelled, and even horrified by the killing of animals and criminals--even in self-defense. This is especially true of Westerners--albeit much less so for the highly religious. The indignation and revulsion most people feel toward such killings--even when fairly justified--seems quite natural, normal, healthy, ingrained, and genetic. It does not seem to be a product of nurturing, education, or socio-cultural osmosis. So there's more hope.

Moreover, at this point in human history there's extremely good reason to believe that the nearly self-evident social evils of murder and war will soon be eliminated from human conduct forever. Political liberalism--as exemplified by current proto-liberal libertarians and objectivists-- should accomplish that fairly quickly.

Altho' if we do succeed--via a libertarian society and capitalist economy--in extirpating the massive social evils of murder and war, we may bring human evolution and physical progress to a grinding halt. Indeed, courtesy of modern medicine, surgery, and near-perfect infant mortality rates, the human race is already well into bio-genetic decline.