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Lebell, the first point is simple population demographics, I believe.
A lot of time we don't consider the vast numbers of people who actually constitute the largest continuous culture the world has ever known. I'll check some numbers, although exact continuous population figures are hard to access from Asia circa 500 BC to the present.
The second point is more speculative, but it's not the first time it's been made. As to the reason; I'd say the nature of the human beast is more brutal, torturous, and murderous than any animal that has ever lived. (again a simple quantitative measure of acts of violence against our own and other species). Given that fact, any reason that would allow this to be justified on a cosmic scale seems like it would be just the thing to assuage the part of us that needs to "rationalize" our behavior. Grist for the forebrain's mill, as it were...
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