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Thursday, September 11, 2008
Mouse revenge
I'm always curious about this topic.
Do mice have the psychological capability to exact revenge?
Because I always hear in my relatives (palibhasa probinsyana mga un) that mice fight back when you kill their youngs.
Anyway... Here are the points to ponder:
Point 1: Mice are smaller than us
Yeah, sure, mice are small, and so are ants. Ever wonder what animals do when you provoke them. They either escape or attack. But, yeah, most likely they attack back.
Point 2: Mice are animals
And as animals, they are still capable of decision, primitive or not. Actually, screw that. They have a primitive decisive ability (which is, 'do anything to survive'). However, revenge isn't actually a primordial attitude, except for a few animals which have the mental ability to recall who to exact revenge to (like elephants). Yet, a mouse eating your dresses because you threw away their kids isn't really that... primitive. It's actually devious in a human sense.
Point 3: Why the clothes?
Why eat our clothes when they can do other more hideous manners of revenge? Why not steal our year's supply of potato chips, or pee on our nose while we're sleeping? Why the goddamn clothes? Oh yah, not only clothes. They always eat anything we are too lazy to check regularly. What, do they know that we always check this cabinet and stuff? Mice don't have the mental ability to remember stuffs like that, though they can recall something like that through externally acting stimulus, but that's a different story.
Point 4: They still eat my poison-filled peanut butter sandwich.
Yet, even though they ate my entire dresser, they still eat the same trap. We can therefore conclude that they're too stupid to conduct a revenge act like that.
But wait, how come they always eat up the clothes of the people that threw out their kids?
All I can tell is that, It's a freaking coincidence.
Point 5: Though they are animal, they still have emotions.
It's not that exaggerated like a human's, though. Though they express it by constantly chewing off the items which contained the scent of the one they last smelled, which, also by coincidence, the one that threw out their kids.
Something's bugging me at point 5, though. There's something wrong with that analysis...
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* note that everything written here is just my opinion. do not believe what i say.
* the word 'eat' here does not necessarily mean 'consume'. It's more like 'chew' or 'gnaw'
Do mice have the psychological capability to exact revenge?
Because I always hear in my relatives (palibhasa probinsyana mga un) that mice fight back when you kill their youngs.
Anyway... Here are the points to ponder:
Point 1: Mice are smaller than us
Yeah, sure, mice are small, and so are ants. Ever wonder what animals do when you provoke them. They either escape or attack. But, yeah, most likely they attack back.
Point 2: Mice are animals
And as animals, they are still capable of decision, primitive or not. Actually, screw that. They have a primitive decisive ability (which is, 'do anything to survive'). However, revenge isn't actually a primordial attitude, except for a few animals which have the mental ability to recall who to exact revenge to (like elephants). Yet, a mouse eating your dresses because you threw away their kids isn't really that... primitive. It's actually devious in a human sense.
Point 3: Why the clothes?
Why eat our clothes when they can do other more hideous manners of revenge? Why not steal our year's supply of potato chips, or pee on our nose while we're sleeping? Why the goddamn clothes? Oh yah, not only clothes. They always eat anything we are too lazy to check regularly. What, do they know that we always check this cabinet and stuff? Mice don't have the mental ability to remember stuffs like that, though they can recall something like that through externally acting stimulus, but that's a different story.
Point 4: They still eat my poison-filled peanut butter sandwich.
Yet, even though they ate my entire dresser, they still eat the same trap. We can therefore conclude that they're too stupid to conduct a revenge act like that.
But wait, how come they always eat up the clothes of the people that threw out their kids?
All I can tell is that, It's a freaking coincidence.
Point 5: Though they are animal, they still have emotions.
It's not that exaggerated like a human's, though. Though they express it by constantly chewing off the items which contained the scent of the one they last smelled, which, also by coincidence, the one that threw out their kids.
Something's bugging me at point 5, though. There's something wrong with that analysis...
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* note that everything written here is just my opinion. do not believe what i say.
* the word 'eat' here does not necessarily mean 'consume'. It's more like 'chew' or 'gnaw'
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