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Originally Posted by Pubic Wig
 thanks! I cant the first but i can the second. Ooooh, where are you doing it? Do you happen to know a Donald Reid or Stuart Fyffe? i think its sturat anyways....h just finished his PhD the other year, duno if he's still at Dundee though.
I agree that aggressiveness is a survival trait in all animals (including man) but wantom acts of torture and sadism?
Haha, i wont get into an argument with you, in biological matters i am definetly outclassed. But i hope my description of evil was alright? |
Don't know them, I'm in a small lab up at Ninewells.
Torture and sadism can be found throughout the animal kingdom. Although it's a lot harder to pin down physiologically than pure aggression is, I'd suggest they're closely related (biologically speaking). For example, in social animals (such as humans) there's often a social hierarchy which is maintained through intimidation and what could be defined as downright cruelty. In other words, social animals are biologically programmed to assert their dominance over weaker members of the same society. It's not "evil", it's biology.
My point about the description of evil is that there isn't really one. Not a decent one anyway.