Thursday, March 6, 2008

Surviving a Big City on Earth

Surviving a Big City on Earth. Studies were done years ago on rats. It was found that if you let too many rats in a cage breed too high a population density within any enclosure that first the rats starting killing each other, then they start raping each other and the babies to death etc. This is how living trapped in any overpopulated area can affect people too.

If one is wealthy enough to leave say for a weekend in the country this tendency is lessened because the weekend vacations act as pressure valves and release the pent up emotional stress of being around too many people constantly.

So,one tends to see what I will call the "Rat Effect" in people who never leave extremely populated areas. These people are usually either the very poor or uneducated or both.

If aberrant people whose behavior is caused primarily by this effect can be reached in childhood often they can be taught something better. However, if one waits until age 25 or 30 it is mostly too late unless the persons themselves understand the problem and begin to make changes in their lives.

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