Recently I watched a documentary on Nat Geo wild about sea lions. Two important things happened that got me thinking again. First, the alpha male while moving within the pack sat on a cub. The cub was screaming for help while the mother watched in anxiety, but could do nothing. The alpha male didn’t move or respond to the cry of the cub and so it died. Secondly, a cub whose mother didn’t return from hunting on time went around crying and searching for the mother. In the process, he noticed it was being watched and might be attacked by a nearby predator, so it decided to seek refuge close to a female. “Bad move” was the word used by the commentator. She attacked him gruesomely and I felt pity for the poor little cub.
This got me thinking, what is really happening in the animal world?
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ARE YOU NOT LIKE THE SEA LIONS?
Many a time (especially nowadays), it is difficult to differentiate some humans from other animals. Of course science says that we are animals too, but higher animals. However, people nowadays behave badly and irrationally that you just can’t help but wonder if they are truly higher animals.
There has been increasing incidences of many abominable acts by people. People treat others in a dehumanizing manner. People harass abuse and molest minors. They kill others for no just cause. Terrorists attack and kill people they claim to be defending, people have increasingly become cruel and selfish.
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All of these are attributes of an instinctive being!
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INSTINCTIVE BEING VS REASONING BEING
Humans’ history has evolved from being primitive to this modern society we now live. We have reasoned and provided ways for ourselves to live better, and make the world the way it is now (we have also been destroying the planet in the process). We have the highest reasoning ability among other animals.
On the other hand, a Lion, Tiger, Hyena etc. has not achieved much in transforming its environment. In fact, they live on instinct, and the ‘survival of the fittest’ is their watch word. These animals do not have to think before they kill! They are not govern by any law and has not advance in technology in any way. They mainly act on instinct!
There is limit to the love and care they show among themselves. They see each other as competitors and will kill to just to take each other out. They have no value systems, belief system, justice system or even cultural values. It is now saddening that some humans have now reduced themselves to the level of these instinctive beings. It is both pathetic and ironic
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ADMONITION
Before you take that decision, think it carefully and thoroughly. Is it the right thing to do? How does it affect others? What do you intent to achieve with it? All of these and other questions should be reasoned out.
It is not everything that makes you feel good that is right. Do not act on mere instinct. You are a reasoning being.
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(see who am I? intro post),