How Does One Differentiate Man from Beast? In Short, You Don't...

What am I even doing anymore?

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[MetaKnight145]

Man is but a monkey that can wear hats and one that eats mouth burning peppers for no logical reason.

[CompleteIndifference]

911029 Yes, but what does it MEAN??

Man is the ape that finds slinging shit societally unnecessary. Instead we sling bullets. I wonder, if the we slung shit more often would there be less war?

[Dinkledash]

The reason your story Kaleb's Critters scares me so much is that I have a very strong belief in the theories of Robert Ardrey regarding the genesis of the human species. Robert Ardrey was among the proponents of the hunting hypothesis and the killer ape theory. He postulated that precursors of Australopithecus survived millions of years of drought in the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, as the savannah spread and the forests shrank, by adapting the hunting ways of carnivorous species. Changes in survival techniques and social organisation gradually differentiated pre-humans from other primates. Concomitant changes in diet potentiated unique developments in the human brain. The killer ape theory posits that aggression, a vital factor in hunting prey for food, was a fundamental characteristic which distinguished prehuman ancestors from other primates.

If you were locked in a cage with Apple Bloom, and you were starving to death, not the "Oh I'm starving" people say when they haven't eaten all day, but you haven't had anything to eat in a week... what would happen? What would your instincts make you do?

[CompleteIndifference]

1024190 Eat the horse... Eat it.

Thank you for your insightful, interesting comment! I'm glad you've enjoyed--or, at the very least, tolerated--my story and I hope it continues to warrant your interest in the future.