And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, May 4, 2020
The Heuvos on this guy - rivals those of the big tusker
Unlike with humans most animals don't kill to prove their bravado. They kill for food and maybe to protect their young as a last resort. Territorial defense usually is a show of force and when the enemy retreats the threat is gone and it's over. Even male mating rituals don't usually end in death unlike the human counterparts do. The single human trait, the ability to reason comes with lots of downside baggage.
In the novel "The Mote in G-d's Eye" one of the characters was talking about how most animals have a surrender ritual, and that the human instinct to reach for a weapon short-circuits that.
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ReplyDeleteUnlike with humans most animals don't kill to prove their bravado. They kill for food and maybe to protect their young as a last resort. Territorial defense usually is a show of force and when the enemy retreats the threat is gone and it's over. Even male mating rituals don't usually end in death unlike the human counterparts do. The single human trait, the ability to reason comes with lots of downside baggage.
ReplyDeleteIn the novel "The Mote in G-d's Eye" one of the characters was talking about how most animals have a surrender ritual, and that the human instinct to reach for a weapon short-circuits that.
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