They mutilate they torment each otherwith silences with wordsas if they had anotherlife to livethey do soas if they had forgottenthat their bodiesare inclined to deaththat the insides of men easily break downruthless with each otherthey are weakerthan plants and animalsthey can be killed by a wordby a smile by a lookAnonymous
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People seem to be most cruel when they are alone. They say things they would not say in public. They laugh at others in a way that is not jocular. They make fun of people behind their backs.
When they are with other people, they smile and act kind, but when they are alone, they are cruel and vicious to each other. This shows that human beings are still very much animals. We can hurt each other, but we cannot kill each other, so we must use other means to get our way.
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