December 8, 2009
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And I had a postcard once that I wish I could find again. It featured a park at the center of some town in Wisconsin (or some nearby state), and the results of the annual fox roundup. Apparently the whole population of the town would get out, form a large circle of beaters around the town, herd all of the foxes into the park–where all the little boys were put to work with clubs to bash the foxes. The postcard shows the jovial crowd looking on with approval as a boy with a club poses, foot resting on a pile of fur and legs and noses. This is the way humans invented evil, in my view. Or at least an indication of how people don’t see evil when they are doing it, but then do when it is turned on them.
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That’s probably more common than you think. Here’s a link to a similar activity involving rabbits:
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/210974