| A wolf kills to eat, or kills to eliminate competition.
Humans, being omnivorous and possessing of technology, can move throughout the chain at will as well as ignore it altogether.
And to answer Osborn, I agree that humans and nature are constantly in contention. That is precisely why we are outside the chain.
I think that because we can move from any chain to any other chain, and any position in each, the only thing that can "consume" us is nature. We don't struggle to maintain our place in the food chain like other animals. We struggle against nature to shape the chain to match our wants. |