The studious debates on war, bad relations, schoolyard fights, etc, are a waste of valuable intellect. The debates should form, rather, around studies of locating the complex trigger that embattles the vast egos of our species.
Though, perhaps, not that vast, as these type of scenarios exist in all of life’s creatures, whether mammals or insects, or whatever is in between.
Why just yesterday, in fact, I witnessed the gentle and loving playfulness of a dog at the park. She was needy, avoided rejection and so gentle around children, that you would have thought, by her behavior, that an angel had penetrated her soul.
And then the storm arrived, a kitten crossed her path and a flash she turned from sweet angel to vicious killer and mauled the kitten in a split second, turning, with her tail in the air and head held high, victorious and continued her angelic ways at the park.
This is not her fault. It is in her instinct. To kill, for no reason at all, not from hunger or any other legitimate reason, just kill for the sake of killing itself.
In our species there must exists the same instinct and therefore to debate this and formulate rules around it is quite ambiguous.
Roy
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Sometimes you're the dog...and sometimes you're the cat.
So true, so true.
The worst is when you are the dog-and-cat at once, and end up mauling yourself - being both the victim and the victimised.
Perhaps, by the study of dogs mauling cats and such, we can understand the nature of the instinct that makes us want to maul cats. And people.
Good one, man - good one.
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