"Why did he think humans were disgusting?" Schiller said with a cold smile. "Because we gave him a hard time for a few months?"
"I think he had plenty of reason to take it out on the entire human race." Gordon looked at Schiller. "Just being given a hard time by you for a few months would already..."
Everyone glanced at Bruce from the corners of their eyes. Bruce lowered his head and studied the dust in the cracks of the floor.
"Actually, it is rather strange." Harvey spoke from a lawyer's perspective. "When humans find something disgusting or abnormal, it often isn't an innate reaction."
"For example, people avoid talking about murder and refuse to let bloody scenes appear on all-ages channels. But if you think about it carefully, is that really human nature? Are humans truly terrified of corpses and blood?"
"What they fear are the taboo symbols within civilized society behind those cultural signs. Social law says it is wrong, social morality says it violates human nature, and over time, people associate every element of murder with breaking the rules of civilized society."
"What people fear is not the elements themselves, but the terrible consequences that may result from violating social rules. This is called society's domestication of humanity."
"From that perspective, if someone had never existed within human society and had never undergone that kind of domestication, then the way he viewed problems would certainly be more primitive and wild, more obedient to his biological instincts."
"In human society, we advocate mutual aid, treating our kind with friendliness and courtesy, and not casually making things difficult for others or hurling insults at them. If someone does otherwise, we consider him awful."
"But if someone had never understood human society or lived within it, would he think