In the wild, animals roam free. In the zoo, animals live in captivity. In the wild, only the laws of nature govern as many animals fall prey to predators or starvation. In the zoo, caretakers provide all of the animals’ food, shelter, and medical attention. In the wild, risk is common. In the zoo, risk is virtually eliminated.
Should humans live in the wild or in the zoo?
While biologically humans are strikingly similar to some animals, intellectual comparisons become dishonest; the capability of the human intelligence is so vastly superior to any primate in the animal kingdom, it seems an ironic misuse of human intelligence to dwell on the diminutive percentage of similarities. And yet, when human intelligence is misused or unemployed, a human can think, decide, and act like an animal. Such humans, commonly referred to as criminals, are routinely placed in the zoo, in order to protect other humans who are roaming free in the wild. This reality alone proves the superior intelligence of humans; the capability to tame the wild through the creation and enforcement of laws of man that temper the laws of nature by providing a degree of protection for the innocent from the predator.
Unfortunately, in the wild, only a degree of protection can be provided, and risk is still common. But the only way to fully protect and eliminate all risk is to place all humans, both innocent and predator, in the zoo. But if all the humans are in the zoo, then who will be the caretakers, and where will the resources to take care of the humans come from? In such a scenario, the caretakers, or the privileged humans who believe they are more intelligent than the others, force the humans in the zoo to work instead of play in order to provide the resources to keep the zoo operational. Curiously, in the human zoo, history has shown that the caretakers eventually become the worst predators.
Freedom is only found in the tamed wild, where risk and the opportunity to roam is only tempered by the intelligence needed to properly identify and restrain the most dangerous predators.
In the wild, animals roam free. In the zoo, animals live in captivity.
