A couple of days ago we had a lesson about Feral Children. One of my students said something that really got me thinking.
“isn’t it strange how when animals live with humans they are still animals, they don’t really change. But when humans grow up with animals they end up acting like animals.”
I don’t think this is a hard and fast rule, after all we do have domesticated animals and zoo animals who won’t attack their trainers but it does make you think about how much people are influenced by their environment.
When we see horrible situations in the world where humans act so disgustingly to each other is it perhaps possible that really their backgrounds have brought them to this point? And that we in similar situations would be not that dissimilar.
What do you think?
