00:00Obviously all animals to some extent strive to self-preserve and of course in
00:07doing so they're not always acting prettily. They kill, they eat sometimes
00:13in ugly ways. That isn't necessarily unique to humans. We're not alone in that.
00:21No, we are very alone in that. No animal has the capacity to be violent and I'm
00:26saying that very consciously, very responsibly. I'll explain. Yes, the lion
00:31does hunt down the deer but the lion won't hunt down the deer as a trophy.
00:36When man hunts down the deer, it will wipe away the entire species of the deer as
00:47we have done and for no physical reason at all.
00:52Yes, we are unique as troublemakers but of course another famous example that
00:58biologists know about lion behavior is that males often kill infants. So, not pretty.
01:07Chimpanzees of course are famous in their warfare against one another.
01:13I'm afraid I have not been understood. We are talking of a psychological void that even
01:19killing cannot fulfill. We are not discussing morality here. We are not saying oh even chimpanzees
01:25are doing all kinds of unpretty and ugly things. We are not here discussing aesthetics. Killing
01:31is not the problem. The problem is that as a human being I suffer and my suffering becomes
01:37the destruction of the world. I suffer and then I prescribe myself a very misplaced diagnosis.
01:45The diagnosis is I'm suffering because I don't have enough. I don't have enough. And I'm not
01:49putting it on my stomach. I'm putting it in my mind. I'm putting it in my mind. And the
01:54mind is never going to have enough of it. And therefore the prescription backfires not just
01:59on me but on the entire planet.
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