Each of us capable of animal rage if sufficiently provoked, or animal lust under the right circumstances?
2007-04-21 07:02:41 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, let's just say 'wild animals'. And yes, the veneer of civilization is thin indeed. Just look at what happens during war, or even when the electricity goes out.
2007-04-21 07:17:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. I hate the misquotes and the heat. I'm more a potato beneath a thin veneer of civilization.
2007-04-21 07:12:19 · answer #2 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YES.
Humans are animals and have been subject to natural selection to define the mental and physical traits most likely to help us survive.
But that does not mean we are imprisoned by the confines of such a system. We are behaving contrary to Darwin's laws, because we desire to know the world. We have brains that can control the harsher sides of ourselves, such as rage, and to preserve modern civilization.
2007-04-21 07:10:13 · answer #3 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think the question is backwards: Animals don't hurt just for the sake of hurting. They don't kill for no reason. They don't manipulate. A better question is: Does every human have the potential to be like an animal? Why don't we try?
2016-05-20 03:53:29 · answer #4 · answered by scarlett 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read Animal Farm by George Orwell. It's kind of about how humans are nothing more than animals.
2007-04-21 07:08:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Almost exactly correct; but the current idea is savanah. There's *NOTHING WRONG* with what you suggest, though.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Genus: Homo
Species: H. sapiens
Subspecies: H. sapiens sapiens
2007-04-21 07:07:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe that there are some people for whom this is true. I do believe that there are others who are far more Spiritually advanced, beyond the need for revenge or lust.
2007-04-21 07:09:05 · answer #7 · answered by meg3f 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
The monkey that I evolved from took a crap in the dirt that others were formed from.
2007-04-21 07:09:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is only the goodness of God and the work of His Spirit within lives that keeps us from consuming one another.
god bless
2007-04-21 07:09:20 · answer #9 · answered by happy pilgrim 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to Marx and Calvin, 'yes'.
2007-04-21 07:14:11 · answer #10 · answered by Thomas Paine 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋