<the semi-civilized world>
Emphasis on semi.
If you put a group of rats in overcrowded conditions, ugly things happen. The rats kill their young, chew off each other's tails, other civilized-Not behavior. If the Experimenter puts his hand in the cage, he gets bitten. Even if the Experimenter calls himself Liberator, and his Experiment is Operation Irati Freedom, or Operation Palestinian Homeland Behind Walls. This happens, no matter what other conditions prevail, even if you provide adequate food, water, housing. If you don't provide these essentials, then the social breakdown and endemic violence happens even sooner.
When these experiments are carried out, who is acting savagely, the rats, or the experimenter? |
