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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Literally any sane human being would agree with the sentiment of this bumper sticker (?), but we are overrun with absolute sissies where you’re scared to even admit it’s better for a kid to be tough and a leader than an ineffectual conformist.

We are so absolutely screwed as a civilization. [/quote]

Are these the only possible animals we can raise our children to emulate?

Can't we raise, I don't know... possums? They are pretty crafty problem solvers (although they do like to rummage through my garbage.) Or hummingbirds? Ants? Beavers? Worker bees?[/quote]
Or loons. Stone cold assassins. https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/animals/2020/05/why-did-a-loon-stab-a-bald-eagle-through-the-heart[/quote]

Reminds me of this fantastic old Cracked listicle:  
"Six Animals that Just Don't Give a F**k" 
https://www.cracked.com/article_18860_6-animals-that-just-dont-give-f2340k.html

"It's common knowledge that the mongoose and the snake are mortal enemies. And you'd think that statement is one-sided: On the one hand, you've got the very emblem of evil and sin -- a scaled, wriggling tube of poison, fangs and death. On the other hand you've got what looks like a cross between a rat and Prince Charles.

If they allowed bets on interspecies rivalries, we'd lay our money square on the snake, every time. And we would lose that money, for one very simple reason: because the mongoose isn't fighting snakes for food, or for territory, or for survival -- it's fighting snakes because f**k snakes." [/quote]

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