The "norm" for humanity is love. Brutality is an aberration. We are not sinners by nature. We learn to be bad. We are taught to stray from our good paths. We are made to be crazy by other people who are also crazy and who draw for us a map of the world which is ugly, negative, fearful, and crazy.
Jack D. Forbes (2011). “Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism”, p.17, Seven Stories Press