How to create cruelty and perversion - by Carl Sagan

  "The neuropsychologist James W. Prescott has performed a startling
   cross-cultural statistical analysis of 400 preindustrial societies
   and found that cultures that lavish affection on infants tend to
   be disinclined to violence."

   ...

  "Where physical affection is encouraged, theft, organized religion
   and invidious displays of wealth are inconspicuous: where infants
   are physically punished, there tends to be slavery, frequent killing,
   torturing and mutilation of enemies, a devotion to the inferiority
   of women, and a belief in one or more supernatural beings who
   intervene in daily life."

   p. 360 "Cosmos"

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