Walking home with Dook we saw a sparrow hawk take a starling out. A beautiful site of tooth and claw, survival of the fittest nature. But it got me thinking a bit about how we see it as wrong if a big strong man robs a weak old man due to his natural advantage. From there I thought of gangs taking advantage of weaker folk to build financial empires.
We are all born different, some beautiful, some ugly, so,e strong, some disabled, some very smart others thickies. Clearly violence is one of the lines we draw that it is wrong to overstep. Most decent people would agree when a big boy enters a group of children and takes all their sweets because they are afraid to stop him. A bully. If an elderly lady is struggling to carry something one would feel it their duty to go help her as she is less able.
But once we get into the wider world this altruism evaporates. If you are really smart, surround yourself with smart staff, you will put businesses run be the less inteligent under.
Darwins revelation runs through the whole animal kingdom. If we are smart enough to see bullying is wrong then why aren't we helping the homeless. Why is it ok to triumph with your intelligence, or get places because you are pretty?
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