DB> DB> -> I agree we are all interdependant. Unfortunately life IS very
 DB> DB> cruel.
 DB> DB> No Don, Life is not cruel in the process...it is the participants
 DB> DB> who make it so.
 DB> Obviously you don't watch any of the nature programs on the Learning 
 DB> Channel or Discovery.  I believe it is called "Natural Selection!"  :)
   But cruelty is a practice reserved to humans.  Animals kill to eat, do not 
maim simply to cause pain, and generally behave in what could be termed a 
'reasonable' (or consistent with their behavioral ruleset) manner.  People, 
however, do all sorts of aberrant things simply because they can.
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