In the book, found in its afterword is a short comment on human being by Mr. Lorenz, the author of the book. The comment, I can slightly remember but not exactly, states something about concerns over the human being who now posses mass destructive weapon.
He is an ethologist.
His concern is, whether human being can control such power of mass destructive weapon like wolves do.
Wolves form a herd and sometimes a young wolf challenges the leader of the herd.
But, often the young one is overpowered by the leader. In the final point of the conflict or say the battle between them, the challenging is put to end with the ferocious jaws of the leader freezing at its position posing the finish-bite around the neck of the challenger.
The leader anyway never bite the neck.
Losing a member of the herd means losing some extent of capability of hunting a prey.
But at the same time, hierarchy should be kept consistently and firmly.
Here then another type of animal. A kind of deer, (I forgot the name ….. ) which does not form herd in wild circumstance.
If some of the deer are put in a fenced area, a male starts killing all the other deer including female and fawn with its own horn.
In wild circumstance, the deer are well spread in a wide area keeping distance with others in a way that there is no competition over food.
But once the distances are no longer kept in that manner, food competition is inevitable.
So reasoned as above is the behavior of the male, in ethological theory.
We human being need others. If we put the above theory of wolves on us then, how the description of Ukraine war can be?
Russian so far have not killed all the Ukrainian people while demonstrating its power.
Is this situation the same as the chief of the wolves do?
No, No! No!, never be the same!
OK then, if Russian just had threatened Ukraine by demonstrating huge armed forces assembled ready for war at the border of the countries, would the war not have broken out? Like wolf chief with its jaw poised to bite.
No, No! No! again never!
OK then, Could Russian be allowed to kill Ukrainian completely so that any competitions over something is eliminated, like that story of deer as Mr. Lorenz exemplified?
OK, no more, that’s impossible, me myself, such a fool!
First of all, human being can never be the same as those wild animals.
The way, so called war, no more fits to this globalized world.
If Mr. Lorenz examined modern human behavior in a way any ethologists do, then he would say, human now have thrown away the method “war”.
He would say, killing people by the name of war does not match with wolf’s jaw or deer’s horn.
We human being now has reached an area beyond ethology.
Mr. Lorenz, please tell us how to built a world order that can completely eliminate any form of war. We could not find any clues from your fascinating studies rather are still being in vain.
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