those other Biblical nations were composed of predominantly Semitic people too. but in general it's a good question, is this our true nature or is someone feeding us stories on how we should go down and we just swallow it and roll over. are you feeling particularly decadent at the moment? I'm not. but the statistics say otherwise, right? like that study saying people lie 200 times a day. also just like nowadays, there's always been lots of propaganda floating around, which is now taken for historical fact. for example I was taught at school that those decadent Ancient Romans had ostrich feathers at their side during parties, in case they had to throw up, but wanted to be able to eat more and more. have you ever threw up? if you did, you know our stomachs don't work like that. why parrot such obvious piece of historical propaganda, as if someone wanted to convince me it was people throwing wild parties that caused an entire empire to collapse, when in fact Rome fell due to inflation. I just wonder who was in charge of their monetary policy (I'm serious here, Wikipedia only says that the currency debasement started with Nero, he must have had some really bad advisors)