If they were hungry enough, they would either reach for the rock or starve. Have you eaten any animal flesh lately?

>Take any group of cub scouts to the park, they see a duck, they reach for a rock.

any non-mentally ill adult present would use the situation to explain that it isn't acceptable.

> Its built-in. We are hunters.

yea. Hannibal Lecter.

Explaining what society condones has nothing to do with what built-in impulses Homo Sapiens possesses. What's your point?

Homo Sapiens doesn't possess those built-in impulses. Some sick members of society imprint that it on some others (usually early in their life), and with society putting some effort into it, that bad habit will be exterminated.

Evidence seems to contradict that Pollyanna view.

judging by your other comments, talking about evidence you probably mean your personal experience. Well, by the same token one would expect that people dealing with rapists would with the same validity talk about such Homo Sapiens built-in impulse too.

Really? My experience with the general population of youth in our area is similar in any way? This thread is off the rails.

That behavior not nearly as universal as you make it sound.

Wishful thinking? Give your own examples...

Or maybe, just maybe, that's the kind of stuff cub scouts are taught, or the kind of thing that they learn from their elders and role models?

Been taking scouts out for 20 years. First time they ever see a duck. They didn't need teaching.