If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.
Douglas AdamsI think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.
Douglas AdamsWe talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on to them, where they were inappropriate and didn't fit. We simply had no idea what it was like being an extremely large lizard, and neither for that matter did the lizard, because it was not self-conscious about being an extremely large lizard, it just got on with the business of being one. To react with revulsion to its behavior was to make the mistake of applying criteria that are only appropriate to the business of being human.
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