Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

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kreuə-

PIE base ‘raw flesh’.

Other derivatives include crude, raw, creosote (from Greek kreas ‘flesh’ and sōtēr ‘preserver’, with reference to its antiseptic properties), and ecru, from French écru ‘raw, unbleached’.

[Pokorny *kreu-1, kreuǝ- : krū- ; kreus-, krus- ‘blood, raw flesh; ice, crust’, pp. 621–622.]

cruelty

Anthony Storr pointed out in Human Aggression, “With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate habitually destroys members of its own species. No other animal takes positive pleasure in the exercise of cruelty upon another of his own kind … The sombre fact is that we are the cruellest and most ruthless species that has ever walked the earth.”