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There's a minor fortification somewhere, I think it was roman. Outside the walls they found a fawn skeleton, fully articulated, with no butchery marks and a broken leg that had healed a bit before death. Nearby is the fully articulated skeleton of a cat.
The thinking is that a soft hearted soldier, child or spouse found a fawn with a broken leg. They tried to nurse it back to health and when it died they buried it near their cat.
It is interesting how there's an element of our human existence that predisposes us to kindness toward animals.
But then another element of our human existence that predisposes us to being disgustingly, brutally awful to each other.
Two sides of the same coin, when considering humanity as a whole. There's a lot of good, but so much bad too.
You're not wrong.
Segregation is as old as our species too. One day we'll destroy ourselves.