Paris: US actor Dustin Hoffman on Monday made a passionate plea for people to show greater humanity saying continuing conflicts and killings showed man had failed to tame his primitive nature. “We know as a human being that from the beginning of history, part of being a human being is to destroy other human beings,” he told a press conference in Paris called to promote his latest film “Meet the Fockers.” “The question is, in the 21st century, we have not yet come close to... dealing with this aspect of human nature. We have no defence against it.” Tragedies such as the Holocaust, the slaughter of a million in Rwanda, the lack of medicine to deal with the AIDS epidemic in Africa and the killing of children in Iraq showed we were failing to learn from the lessons of our past, said the double Oscar winner.— AFP