From: Ian Goddard (Ian@Goddard.net)
Date: Tue Jan 12 1999 - 21:21:24 MST
At 05:47 PM 1/12/99 -0500, Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
>
>> If the study you refer to pertains to modern
>> times, I'd note that most raised as hunters
>> live in rural areas with lower crime rates,
>> so your implication that killing some animals
>> engenders compassion for others could be false.
>
>So you admit that raising a human child (typically male) in a vegetarian
>and/or urban environment without hunting deprives the child from expressing
>his evolved instincts to hunt, and may wind up subliming this repression into
>cruelty to humans and other animals?
IAN: No, I don't admit that at all! What I
said was there's lower crime in rural areas
per se. I doubt that the reason is because
rural people kill more animals. I'd suspect
that it has to do with rural people being
self-sufficient by nature with solid family
support and folks aren't so crowded together.
The close proximity of people in the cities
maximizes opportunities for thugs to attack
and makes a life of crime more economical.
Also, most primates aren't carnivores, and
as I recall, if they eat any flesh it's less
than 10% of their diet (the great apes are
strict vegetarians), and so the idea of a
human "hunting instinct" seems debatable.
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