> > > I can't help but think of Ceasar (Dog Whisperer) and his technique of how dogs handle unruly members of the pack. The dog isn't banished - but the rest of the pack will make it unbearable enough for the unruly dog that he/she eventually learns to manage their behavior in order to co-exist within the pack. The social pressure (and disruption) goes away when the objectionable behavior goes away.
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> I am not trying to defend or accuse anyone; just making an observation. Interesting analogy with dogs. I have seen many documentaries on pack behavior where they hunt together and single out the weak or sick to attack. The eating of newborns is also a common occurrence. There are no morals or conscience; only survival of the fittest in the pack or in another pack. I am not sure this primal training method is applicable in a civilized world. I thought this was a board geared for support of MI and folks with problems??
ou812 - Don't you think you might be taking the analogy far outside of what my intent was? I was using it in a very limited and specific way. I used it because in another thread, Muffled used it to describe the correlation between how a new dog coming to the dog park behaves, and how someone new to the Babble community should behave. Do you honestly believe, based on what I wrote, that I think that human communites and packs of animals are exactly alike, across-the-board? That's silly. I can't imagine how on earth you would draw that kind of a conclusion.
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