• @RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip
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    47 days ago

    Among dogs there is certainly the one dog that has the respect of the other dogs. The other dogs will happily wag their tail and show their belly. The ones that challange it will be chased away. I think each sex in the community has a ‘leader’ of their own.

    I think the equivalent in humans are charismatic individuals that command respect over their surrounding.

    People who self-proclaim ‘alpha’ usually lack charisma, are agressive, dysfunctional individuals that live in a fantasy. Noone respects them. They may see them as crazy and hence fear them.

    • LousyCornMuffins
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      27 days ago

      i mean we’ve got that one cat that beats up all the other cats and dogs in the neighborhood and everyone knows to keep their distance. pecking order I think it’s called.

    • Dyskolos
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      57 days ago

      You’re probably talking about literally the same: random dogs thrown spacially together where they naturally would avoid each other if they could. Which, in the modern days, they can’t. Especially not when leached.

        • Dyskolos
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          17 days ago

          And? Of course there is. They’re also on a spectrum. Everyone is everything to some degree.