Not talking about bees.....though I love bees, well, honey bees and bumble bees and even carpenter bees are cute, and bees are so beneficial for pollination, I mean, are't they literally sort of surrogate dad's? Plant sperm transporters or something? Anyway, without them (and there have been many colony die-offs which is of concern) we'd have to hire people dressed as bees, so as not to upset the plants, to hand pollinate (yeah, I know, the implication of that really does not sound right.)
Honey bees (which are my favourites, they're cute and fuzzy though not petable and you shouldn't because if they lose their stinger they die- Wikipedia '...the stinger tearing loose from the bee's abdomen and leading to its death in minutes, this only happens if the skin of the victim is sufficiently thick, such as a mammal's.') are not even native to North America. They were introduced here from Europe in the 1600s.
More from Wikipedia-
'Honey bees represent only a small fraction of the roughly 20,000 known species of bees. Some other types of related bees produce and store honey, but only members of the genus Apis are true honey bees.'
Honey bees (which are my favourites, they're cute and fuzzy though not petable and you shouldn't because if they lose their stinger they die- Wikipedia '...the stinger tearing loose from the bee's abdomen and leading to its death in minutes, this only happens if the skin of the victim is sufficiently thick, such as a mammal's.') are not even native to North America. They were introduced here from Europe in the 1600s.
More from Wikipedia-
'Honey bees represent only a small fraction of the roughly 20,000 known species of bees. Some other types of related bees produce and store honey, but only members of the genus Apis are true honey bees.'
But enough of bees because this is not what the post is about.
Guess it's like a justification, even in war, if there is a majority in favour, whether something is right or wrong. Mob/Collective influence, which, depending on the mob/collective can produce positive and/or negative results? And it is easy to pass the blame/guilt on to someone else when in a group- 'well it was his/her idea'.
I suppose, if someone has the power to convince, coerce, bribe or threaten,
you can build an army or an elite guard or any type of group.
One alone, is not usually a threat.
As with bullies.
Most will back down on a one-on-one confrontation, that is why most of them either have a cohort or a posse.
And bullies come in all shapes, sizes, genders, ages, races, etc.
There are some bullies who are so subtly ‘persuasive’ others may not even realize they are being influenced or controlled. One’s who stir an otherwise good group of people into a rabble. It's been this way throughout history.
Hitler, for example, or the Salem Witch Trials, and so forth (yeah, I'm watching 'Salem' on WGN America, which is why I brought that up.)
I suppose, if someone has the power to convince, coerce, bribe or threaten,
you can build an army or an elite guard or any type of group.
One alone, is not usually a threat.
As with bullies.
Most will back down on a one-on-one confrontation, that is why most of them either have a cohort or a posse.
And bullies come in all shapes, sizes, genders, ages, races, etc.
There are some bullies who are so subtly ‘persuasive’ others may not even realize they are being influenced or controlled. One’s who stir an otherwise good group of people into a rabble. It's been this way throughout history.
Hitler, for example, or the Salem Witch Trials, and so forth (yeah, I'm watching 'Salem' on WGN America, which is why I brought that up.)