For betterment and guided evolution of our own nature
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I would insist that it becomes more and more clear that to BE human is to REDEFINE human. Things like rage, violence, vengeance, greed and suchlike are not human - they are the products of a more ancient programming within our brains, one that has survived through aeons and countless species because it allowed them to survive in a brutal, primitive and uncontrollable environment.

Now, we don't usually see in animals the disgusting excesses of violence that we can observe in human society, and, from a perspective of neuro- and cognitive science, that is not very hard to comprehend. The instinct is a fixed pattern generator - it recognises a preprogrammed model of a situation and generates an equally preprogrammed response to that model.

As long as the environment that provides these situations is closely similar to the primeval savannah where our ancestors evolved, these instincts work more or less as they should; however, as soon as the environment starts to diverge from these conditions and the situations become more complex and less similar to that ancient primitive life, our instincts start to fail. The models are no longer adequately recognised by the pattern generators, and the respective responses are, much more often than not, distorted, disproportionate and aberrant. Our animal side has no fitting place in human[e] society.

It can be countered. Our neocortices that embody and drive our higher-order cognitive functions of thought, reflection and metacognition (i.e. awareness and control of our awareness) consist of context-free pattern generators which can replace anything we could need from our older, fixed functionality. By consciously altering our thinking, by literally changing our minds and suppressing the now largely dysfunctional instinctual urges, we can become more human and, what is much more important, MORE HUMANE.