What the hell is going on?!

This is bad....the current levels of violence in the middle east. The Sunnis are assumed to have co-ordinated an attack that killed 200 + shiites....and the shiites torches some mosques that killed some sunnis. This is just a recent event and there have been and will be hundreds more...

The rest of the animal kingdom kills mainly for food or survival and that is understandable...human beings kill for power. At it's most fundamental level, killing goes beyond religion even....POWER AND CONTROL seem to be the ultimate reason.

How can one man actually KILL another man? By ANY means? How does one bring himself / herself to shoot, stab, beat, burn, poison or strangle another human being? Obviously it's possible going by the number of deaths lately...but I wonder how? Can one person become SO BLINDED by whatever the reason to KILL another human being?

With all our emotional faculties, intelligence, scientific inventions and what not, we are supposed to be the pinnacle of creation....ARE WE?