Yes; of the animal kingdom.... "Survival of the fittest" and all that jazz.
Your observation strikes me as a great pretext for the long-predicted "war of all against all".... "Nature bloody in tooth and claw," etc., etc., ad nauseam. The law of the jungle in the Public Square....
French Revo Redux.
Do you really think human beings should be regarded exclusively as animals? If you do, then how could you ever account for the fact that, though an animal in his physical nature, man is also "ensouled," and is rational; he has mind; he thinks, and he communicates his thoughts in complex natural languages. No animal other than man is capable of doing this.
Are we going to have to drop this fact down the old memory hole, just so your thesis — which implicitly calls for the total reduction of the human being to the purely physical — can be correct?
No, betty boop, might is right in all cases, including human. The strong prevail and they get to write what is right.
Your observation strikes me as a great pretext for the long-predicted "war of all against all".... "Nature bloody in tooth and claw," etc., etc., ad nauseam.
Now you are just being a drama queen. I never suggested any of that.
French Revo Redux
Hardly.
Do you really think human beings should be regarded exclusively as animals?
Not at all. That doesn't change the fact that might prevails in all instances and for all times and in all things.
If you do, then how could you ever account for the fact that, though an animal in his physical nature, man is also "ensouled,"
Being "ensouled" is a postulate and not a fact.
and is rational; he has mind; he thinks, and he communicates his thoughts in complex natural languages. No animal other than man is capable of doing this.
I agree. Man is much more developed that other animals in that regard.
Are we going to have to drop this fact down the old memory hole, just so your thesis — which implicitly calls for the total reduction of the human being to the purely physical — can be correct?
I don't remember making such a "thesis". I was merely observing that might prevails and sets the rules and can be said to be one of those "universal laws" for all times.