Imagine if the carnivores of the animal kingdom
Kept skulls of every human that they had killed
Stacking them in pyramid pile, showing them off
We might find them frightening or more dangerous
I think we'd find them to be hateful or fearsome
Where they are proud, we think of quotas filled
If they attack, kill them, don't even count the shots
Ask if you're equal to the task, especially adventurous
If killing one another is damnable
Humans are easily the most dangerous animal
It has been noted that the Jenghiz-Khanite Mongol invasion of the thirteenth century was less cruel, for the Mongols were mere barbarians who killed simply because for centuries this had been the instinctive behavior of nomad herdsmen toward sedentary farmers. To this ferocity Tamerlane [Timur] added a taste for religious murder. He killed from Qur'anic piety. He represents a synthesis, probably unprecedented in history, of Mongol barbarity and Muslim fanaticism, and symbolizes that advanced form of primitive slaughter which is murder committed for the sake of an abstract ideology, as a duty and a sacred mission. Grousset, The Empire of the Steppes
