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yes, indeed. It's easy to forget the terror and brutality of survival that is a daily given for most animals and a certain percentage of humans when you live in
by novalis78 13y ago
yes, indeed. It's easy to forget the terror and brutality of survival that is a daily given for most animals and a certain percentage of humans when you live in the "developed" world. Amazing how quickly we get accustomed to a safe and routine life when all it takes is a month in a jungle - or Calcutta for that matter - to re-appreciate how far we have come using reason, stepping beyond what could be classified as "natural".
- gurkendoktor 13y agoWe are safe not just thanks to reason in our social behaviour, but also our hygiene: http://www.amazon.com/Parasite-Rex-Bizarre-Dangerous-Creatures/dp/074320011X http://www.amazon.com/Parasite-Rex-Bizarre-Dangerous-Creatur... I thought that anyone who has raised a cat knows that animals are jerks (playing with bleeding mice for hours and all), but I was shocked by the added layer of terribleness from parasites in almost all species.