I have more than once seen dogs attack one another, if restrained from attacking some other perceived threat. Tonight, I saw two beagles, restrained by a fence from responding to something they thought bad, attack one another viciously, as if the other one–one they spent every day with, and had for some years–were their worst enemy in the world. I tried to break them up, but finally the energy waned, and one put its head on the other, as if to comfort it. Both dogs were shaking, and stood there for some minutes, again unafraid of one another.
Do we humans not do this? Do we not break things we love, attack people we love, when under the thrall of some discarnate spirit of violent arousal? Do we remember who we were to one another in the end, like simple dogs?
I think we are certainly more clever than dogs, in many ways, and certainly stupider in some ways.
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