when I was a child I would throw a scoop of red ants onto a pile of black ants to watch them fight. Sometimes I would throw a scoop of black on to red, just to watch them main and kill each other. They didn't know why they were maiming and killing, only that they had to maim and kill. They could have just walked away.
That metaphor is meaningless, especially so because you impute human reasoning ("they could have just walked away") to creatures that DON'T reason, they just act on instinct.
And as far as metaphors go (on the unlikely chance that you ever did this at all), you ignore your part in it... bringing together creatures in an artificial space that would never occupy that space in nature.
when I was a child I would throw a scoop of red ants onto a pile of black ants to watch them fight. Sometimes I would throw a scoop of black on to red, just to watch them main and kill each other. They didn't know why they were maiming and killing, only that they had to maim and kill. They could have just walked away.
That metaphor is meaningless, especially so because you impute human reasoning ("they could have just walked away") to creatures that DON'T reason, they just act on instinct.
And as far as metaphors go (on the unlikely chance that you ever did this at all), you ignore your part in it... bringing together creatures in an artificial space that would never occupy that space in nature.
Um, you DO know how metaphors work...right?