All the examples you cited are the result of riot and/or duress of authority and/or
the result of modern technology allowing killing from a distance.
They are the nature of crowds, weapons that kill without the killer seeing the victim
and systems of rule, not the nature of man.
*edit2* Whilst Stalin, GengisKhan and other leaders are not under the duress
of authority, they are only able to kill so many because of their authority.
Unless they where psychopathic (many of them where!) they would not want to,
or be able to, commit the same number of murders with rock and noone to do the
dirty work for them.
*Edit3* Just to be clear, here is the quote from me
in full. (now with spelling corrected
)
Quote:
Since the dawn of man people have shown compassion to their enemies, even in
warfare. There has never been a culture so devoid of empathy that any one given
member of it could batter to death more than a few hundred unarmed children and
women in cold blood, let alone a few hundred thousand, for no more reason than they
where called "enemy".
That manner of thing only ever happens in the fury of riots, the oppression of authority
or, more recently, in the mushroom-clouds of technology.
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*edit* I really dont mean this as a personal attack or anything, but the use of caps to emphasise
things makes it a little hard to read for me, could you use bold text instead? Just for me?