From: julio@diegidio.name   
      
   A man is not a lion and our society is not a jungle: the male lion eats   
   for first and until he is satisfied, but then he turns around and walks   
   away, he doesn't stop, look everybody in the eye, and say "that's mine   
   and don't you dare touch it".  (See also: "private property".)   
      
   There is though an instinct that is common to humans and animals:   
   "predation", and even to plants if we expand the notion to "assuring   
   food".  Indeed, it is at a species level that animals or plants do not   
   show ecological awareness, e.g. predators in a region won't spare their   
   pray because its numbers are dwindling.   
      
   That does not mean to be a precise or scientifically precise picture,   
   it is just the pretext.  Indeed enough to see a crucial distinction:   
   what animals as well as plants do at a species level, humans have   
   started to do at an individual level...  Then starts my speculation,   
   about intelligence and its progression:   
      
   1) Initially (at some point) the Earth was an organic individual   
   intelligence (in the cosmos) and in internal harmony: there were   
   no conflicts, as in the proverbial Eden; 2) then biological   
   differentiation and the intelligence "emerging diluted" into   
   multiple species; 3) eventually humans, where the intelligence   
   has decayed to individual.  (A decay, as said, in the sense of   
   a loss of ecological awareness or just "sense".)   
      
   The notion also emerges that the apex of a species' individuated   
   intelligence is the apex of that species' stupidity as a species.   
      
   Enjoy,   
      
   Julio   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)