[Paladin2]

"In urban society, humans 'rats, living in close proximity to others, are forced to control their lives to minimize negative impacts on each other. Urban societies become more and more regimented. "

Exactly.

[expat2]

A famous experiment reported at length many years ago in Scientific American studied the behavior of rats as the population density increased. The rats behaved in a much more-corrupted manner than at low density: they turned to homosexuality, eating their young (their abortion), and other depravities.