Letters to the Editor
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@ Clockwork Smurf
I see we have very different views of how people are and how the world actually works. Yours is much more mechanistic -- hence your choice of a screen name perhaps.
Let me ask you this: If the world works the way that you say it does, then why do we spend an extraordinary amount of money to keep alive old folks with cancer so that they may enjoy a few more years? Do you anticipate that, in the future, we may all be Soylent Green?
While I found what you had to say interesting, I find that you made no mention of the value of wisdom which comes with age. I also don't think you know much about wolves. They are extremely empathetic creatures. They even attach somewhat to people. However, what most distinguishes them from dogs is their shyness, dogs are generally much bolder, and the wolf's resistence to being trained. Their loyalty will never go to humans when it can go to the pack. The domestication of dogs was probably ultimately achieved by managing to convince wolves that humans were part of the pack -- especially inasmuch as humans provided food just as adult wolves feed their young. Dogs are the infantilization of wolves. Wolves, on the other hand, remain wild. Efforts to make them behave like dogs has ended in tragedy many times. Wolves are also much smarter than dogs. Perhaps that is why they don't now -- even when it seems to their benefit -- ally with humans. Perhaps they sense that we are their enemies. Consider why they are endangered.