Reply #56: I have. I find very few examples [View All]

of "pure selfishness and savagery." The closest I can come is the domestic cat. Cats love to play with prey. They will bring it in the house, set it loose, stalk it, torture it, set it loose, again and again until it is finally dead. I'm sure this is some kind of "practice," but it is savage in that they don't make a clean kill. They also don't eat all of their prey. Much of it is given as a "gift" to the human family. Either they are treating us like kittens who need parents to hunt for us (perhaps turning prey loose in the house is to teach us to hunt for ourselves?) or just offering gifts to the household servants who care for them.

Outside of that, no examples come to mind. I don't include the biological imperative to eat and survive "selfishness" or "savagery."

It is the human animal that derives psychological pleasure from "winning," which often is not a matter of survival, but of causing pain or loss to the opponent.