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Greed is also applied ego with the intend to favor yourself and/or profiling against another. The ego wants while the other is being used as a reference point.
Hate is agression which finds no way out. It's anger and frustration which you can not handle and thus lay it upon something outside yourself. Hate is outwardly expressed powerlessness.
Originally posted by operation mindcrime
reply to post by Trexter Ziam
Hate is agression which finds no way out. It's anger and frustration which you can not handle and thus lay it upon something outside yourself. Hate is outwardly expressed powerlessness.
Is it hate or merely aggression which the older cat expresses??
As for the squirels, i would go along in saying that fat squirel is one greedy critter but is he using the other squirels as a reference in order to conclude that he has more than the rest or is it just hamstering as much as he can in order to have the best change at survival??
You see, i don't believe animals go "haha, i've got more than you!!" and that seems a basic element for the definition of the concept "greed", according to my theory that is......
Thanks once again for the good examples and i hope to see more..
Peace
Originally posted by Trexter Ziam
According to your description, yes, it would be "hate". His aggression finds no other way out because 1. he is fixed 2. I don't let them fight. I do let them play chase though. It's good exercise and they can't go outdoors.
I know if you put a dog (what's up with the dogs in my examples??) in a cage for a couple of years and you poke it with a stick every day, you would think that it would come to learn to hate me. And by opening his cage i could prove my right because it would most likely bite off my throat.....
But is this hate?? No....indeed the dog will have feelings of aggression but his restriction of expressing this anger is the cage, not his own failure or powerlessness.
Originally posted by operation mindcrime
I am looking for that unique ability, in the creature we call "man", that bears the most responibility for all the hatred, cruelty, bloodshed and fear on this planet since the dawn of our species....
Obviously it has to be an emotion which is foreign to other living organisms or a combination of emotions which set us apart from the rest of nature.
-Greed, the desire to have.
...if and when that desire is fulfilled, including the road to it, it gives us a feeling of satisfaction and pleasure.
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