Do lambs hate lions?

[KrazyHorse]

I'm so glad I finally figured out what angle to take in creating this thread.

[Solomwi]

Exactly. You're favouring lamb deliciousness at the expense of, say, lamb fertility. Why should we prefer one method of increased wealth at the expense of the other?

Lion altruism with lambs is a pleasant fiction. At the end of the day, one is dead and one is sated.

That's just my own shortcoming. Why not give each lion the incentive to figure out for himself which works best? Leo goes for the fertile flock, and Simba goes for deliciousness. Somewhere along the way, one of Leo's rams trips and plunges into one one of Simba's ewes like a chocolate bar into a jar of peanut butter, and magic happens.

[KrazyHorse]

By fixing lamb flocks and preventing lions from taking each others' you're reducing the available dimensions of optimization, solomwi.

[KrazyHorse]

And, as I said: it seems a bit feudal to me.

Lambs may not appreciate being told that they are now the property of one lion.

[Drake Tungsten]

It seems far smarter to let certain lambs think they're actually lions and contribute to the control of other lambs.

[KrazyHorse]

Well, let's say that the current ideas exempt certain weaker lions from controls. The strongest lions will then feast on the decidedly tastier meat of fellow meat-eaters (whose numbers and vulnerability have increased) while the losers will be the mediocre lions who cannot simultaneously comply with controls and hunt effectively.

[KrazyHorse]

One other aspect of this I haven't commented on is that without teeth, we will be forced to gum lambs to death. It seems an altogether more painful way to die.

[Al B. Sure!]

I think you all are forgetting the purpose of a metaphor...

[Solomwi]

And, as I said: it seems a bit feudal to me.

Lambs may not appreciate being told that they are now the property of one lion.

Oh, I'm sure they won't. But the more important issue right now is two responses and no love for the Reese's analogy?!?

I'm done with this thread. Good day, sir.

Ok, the truth is I'm just going to bed, so don't call me a liar if I jump back in the thread tomorrow.

[KrazyHorse]

I think you all are forgetting the purpose of a metaphor...

What would that be? According to what I was taught, it's the purveyance of one idea by equating it with an analogous one. I believe this fits that definition.

[Al B. Sure!]

But to what purpose, KH? This is the first time I've seen anyone extrapolate a metaphor like this and turn it into an esoteric discussion without much clear correspondence to anything real (you're just adding metaphors onto metaphors... filing down teeth mean what exactly?)

[ShaneWalter]

I have NO IDEA what any of you are jabbering on about.

[DaShi]

What if the lions lays down with the lamb? Then we'll have lion-lamb hybrids!

[SlowwHand]

Wow. A thread made up entirely of Drake and KH having a discussion... this makes for some brilliant insights!

On one level. On another level it's KH falling into his whole redundant can't finish a thought blabbering to himself discussion.

[Asher]

I have NO IDEA what any of you are jabbering on about.

It's biblical.

The lamb is Ghonnamora and the lion is Sodom.