a few times but I still must watch it in pieces since there is a lot to take in.

Two things always cross my mind...

1. He was right about Russia

2. Men love to kill and that will never change. Animals don't do this, MEN do this over and over and over, etc.


Next...The Deer Hunter.

as human beings, we have a conscience and should be beyond massive killings in war and murderous, abusive behavior at any time. We want to believe that we have a higher nature that is above that sort of thing.

There are animals that do kill even members of their own species. When a male lion takes over a pride after the pride's male has died, the new male kills off any cubs fathered by the previous male.

Jane Goodall documented horrific battles to the death between separate troops of chmps. They did not just fight to dominate a territory. The winning troop killed off every every single adult male and female and all of the offspring in the defeated troop. She also reported on some females who killed the infants of other females and fed the murdered infants to their own offspring. Other chimps did object and in the future after such incidents, came to the aid of any mother whose infant was endangered by the cannibalistic mother.

We like to believe that we are more evolved than that. And many, hopefully most of us, are. That's why we prosecute such behavior as crimes. But human beings do have both a higher, altruistic nature and a lower, base nature.

since I was 11 and my sister and I were watching a nature show. There was a female lion, or similar animal, who had a bunch of offspring and the other lions started to attack her and her babies for some reason. She was outcast as a member of the group and I don't remember why they all ganged up against her. My sister and I were crying so hard that our parents made us turn it off.