World Animal Day 2019
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of the vicious beast variety. I know how to growl and bar my teeth. There are various maneuvers with which I am familiar which could be very compromising to another physically.
Then there is that nagging component which blows it all out of the water: conscience.
I have this compelling sense of what is right or wrong secondary to my raising. I am innundated with mores which have been there as long as I have.
That complex of ethical and moral principals was instilled into me from my parents and various others who took it upon themselves to provide guidance to me at various points in my life. These form various images which may be called "experience".
Not all of these were appreciated at the time either, but they seem to have stuck anyway.
So as an animal I have underlying characteristics which inhibit those "wild" aspects of existence.
Today is World Animal Day. It's an international observance of action for animal rights and welfare celebrated each year on October 4 and corresponds to the feast day of Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals.
Yes, I have those characteristics which could be construed as quite animalistic but there is the underlying prudence from experience which suppresses those animal impulses within thereby separating me from the wilder beasts — of which I still claim to be one.