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What a wild ride this conversation took. I’m curious, what makes you a lion instead of a bug?
Nothing makes me a lion (as there are basically no true lions in our present society, except maybe at zoos).
But what gives me perhaps the soul of a lion? A dream. Dreams are the essence of any man's soul.
Even a bug can have the soul of a lion if he accepts that he might be squashed by an actual lion (which is not to say he must desire it, nor that any lion should do so) and boldly endeavors with vitality anyway. (Of course we don't see many such valiant bugs these days either, at least not smart ones who are willing to reveal themselves openly, as they generally either just get ripped apart by their fellow bugs or killed by a massive cybernetic psyop military-industrial-"intelligence" globohomo fly swatter, miserable ends which confer little dignity beyond the trifle of martyrdom to meet.)
Then again a bug who acts this way is not really much of a bug anymore either. They are more like a lion cub or perhaps a proud house cat, depending on their trajectory. And, contrary to you perhaps thinking now that I'm some sort of "dog eat dog" or "survival of the fittest" Darwinian, I do think that creatures of different levels of strength can and should cooperate. (This is in fact one of the core principles of fascism: the elimination of class war via the cooperation of all classes.)
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