Why would it be repugnant? Maybe some of the Neanderthals were fine people. Who is to say that one of them could not have learned to do a Sudoku puzzle as well as anyone alive today? Or become a chess master? Certainly none of them was as evil as some members of our species (Stalin, Hitler, Che Guevara, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein).
Certainly none of them was as evil as some members of our species (Stalin, Hitler, Che Guevara, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein).