You would think man is above that, but alas, we are also animals.

If we were animals we'd still be slobbering in the mire. And it's a fine line between reason and excuse, however so motivated in terms of such cynical pessimism regarding the human condition, perilous as it may be. However, this sort of thing is by no means typical, nor yet even inevitable; I'd say it was as anomalous and remarkable as it is absolutely appalling - certainly to most of us, who would only wish to contextualise such an obvious tragedy, in every sense, within the overall condition of racism in the UK.

If nature loved uniformity there would be no diversity; the point and purpose of life is accommodation in all things, and as cultural and cognitive beings (the very reasons we are most certainly not animals) then we must strive ever more resolutely to that end.