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Primates are in this category as well and it’s in our genes. But how much of the instincts is relevant to the modern life?
Nowadays, you don’t have to be big and strong to drive a car or to operate a computer. The muscular power as well as the charge of adrenaline lost its “charms”. Well, to a certain extend. But, in my limited experience, the males of the primate herd continue to behave as if they are protecting me. From something or other. Undefined. Perhaps, from themselves.
To keep it short, do you differentiate between protection and control? What is what and what is an overstep? How long do you want to go to protect? How long would you accept protection? Where’s the line between protection and control? (Let’s leave aside possession and obsession.)