Chapter 2 livestock

2000/04/11 Sanlian Life Weekly Author: Pudding Regarding power books, most of them are about sports behavior, and it is inevitable to compare them with others when reading them.Sometimes, many books are written like this, such as "Attack and Human Nature", when the author wrote chapter 13, he made a big comment on human beings, saying that if there is an absolutely impartial observer on Mars, he will never think that human beings Behavior is dictated by intellect, or dictated by moral duty, human nature is irrational, and so on.These words are very refreshing. If I read the book out of context, it is easy to find some interesting sentences from the book. For example, the author said that "the concept of 'normal' is the most difficult concept in biology to define, but at the same time it is very difficult to define. Unfortunately as indispensable as its relative 'pathological' conception".The author said that "the whole of biology" does not matter if people are involved in it.

In the interview "Recreating the Future", there is a scientist who studies female monkeys. She said that promiscuous sex is natural in female monkeys, but she also said: "Sometimes, I have a very uncomfortable feeling—the media Paint me as a spokeswoman who thinks promiscuity is natural. But if you're talking about people, not animals, I'm not that spokeswoman." It seems that scientists who study female monkeys do not like readers who have "contrast addiction", but unfortunately, there are quite a few people with this addiction. Recently, there is a book called "The Beauty of the Beast", which is very popular. The subtitle is "Re-examining the Nature of Life". As soon as I saw the title of the book, I muttered in my heart. A book about animals does not deserve a particularly philosophical subtitle.

From a philosophical point of view, the reason why people have a habit of comparing with animals is nothing more than that people are also a kind of animals, and they want to find out some causal relationship for human behavior.However, some zoology experts have said that animals only care about the result, not the reason.Frenchman Jacques Tremorin said in his "Anecdote about Animals": "When you are talking about the habits of animals, please avoid using the extremely harmful word 'because'." He said, "Dogs eat because He's hungry" is stupid, because a dog may not eat when it's hungry, but if another dog is guarding the food, the dog will eat whether it's hungry or not.What Tremoran means is that it's most interesting to see how animals survive.

Although I can't get rid of "contrast addiction" for a while, I am more willing to accept Tremoran's point of view. If I want to re-examine the essence of life, I would rather examine chickens, dogs, monkeys and pigs first, rather than examine me through them.The German Vitos-Drüscher has a book called "Animal Proverbs". He said that doves symbolize peace. In fact, there are also fierce fights among doves, but they are too weak to harm others. Donkeys Not stupid, what happened to Ji Lu's tears?Crocodiles also have watery tenderness.I love to read these stories told by Drucher.