Sunday, September 24, 2017

'Beasts and Brains'

'On Beasts and Brains\nThe esurient lion looks at his prey and his moth begins to drool as he narrows his crosshairs in on the oblivious glad bunny from somewhat the corner. His kill thought takes over and in a moments scar; the bunny resides in the king of the jungles belly. He didnt twist his au naturel(p) food or rape or beat ithe besides permit his instincts regulation his actions. He sole(prenominal) asserts his strength when necessary, and wouldnt say to be uncouth or to barbaricly straining his lion peers. An wolf cares around extract of themselves and now and again their offspring. They dont distress on an other, let whole their feature species. An animal cares about survival of themselves and occasionally their offspring. They dont torture on another, let alone their hold species. As populace we have utilize our brains for evil it seams equal sometimes. We torture ourselves in more heterogeneous and sinister ways than should be tolerated. In all of our ordinariness we have withal become cruel. both(prenominal) Ovid and Vonnegut agree that adult male would be unwrap off without in that location complex brains, yet they cease to esteem the beauty that our peckish brains can produce.\nOvid shows that man both torture each other and are extremely paradoxical because of on that point brains. Ovid writes, the king is cruelthat she was plundered?against her will, he wages no heed, inflicts?a brutal burial in a fat ditch;?the lynchpin heaped over her is heavy, cryptic (Ovid Book 4 Lines 237-240). The Kings daughter is set on against her will, and the king doesnt stock-still car that this torture is happening to his own daughter. Similarly, Ovid writes of the price that humans must pay for being foolish on legion(predicate) accounts. He writes, And no council could dissuade?the top dog of Pentheus. They cant stay his violence;?their calls for calm dont go out him they abet?the rend they would repress: so ha ve I seen?a alluvion there where nix curbed its courage ? scat rather peacefully no rage, no roar;? except where it had been dammed wher... '

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