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Human Zebras (none / 0)

Killing zebras is what lions do, and killing humans is what other humans do. We've always done it, and we'll probably do it forever, until something comes along to kill all of us.
The interesting thing about people is that we feel ambivalent about our bloodiest impulses. We indulge them, but we also bemoan them. Lions, on the other hand, do not -- or at least we don't know about it.

by QCompson on Thu Apr 01, 2004 at 04:49:26 PM PDT

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  well, some feel ambivalent, others less so....
  
  by markymarx on Fri Apr 02, 2004 at 12:29:02 AM PDT
  
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    ...didn't mean to imply that specific individuals were ambivalent. I meant that our species has forever had a love/hate relationship with violence against our fellows, and (though I didn't say this in my original comment) that this relationship lies very, very deep in our (collective!) psyche.
    
    by QCompson on Tue Apr 06, 2004 at 10:18:03 AM PDT
    
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