The Law Of The Jungle By Rudyard Kipling's Laws Of The Jungle
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The same thing also works when we’re talking about laws, as they have kept their roots since primeval times.
In the past, when the laws were not even established, the world was an utter chaos. Everyone was fighting for themselves, trying to avoid death in any possible way, just so they could survive and live yet another day. What people didn’t know at that time, was that they were already using a law. It was the “law of the jungle”. This phrase was used in a poem by Rudyard Kipling, him describing the obligations of a wolf in a pack. People of those times were basically, same as wolves, their behaviour did not differ that much. “Every man for himself,” “anything goes,” “survival of the strongest,” “survival of the fittest,” “kill or be killed,” and “eat or be eaten”. These were the first instincts of “the law of the jungle” that we based on. It doesn’t matter that we used this law unconsciously, or that this rule was way too general, not describing the actual state of a law. The fact that we were already starting to develop some ideas, some rules of how to live, how to get food, how to hide, how to invent something, despite them being only as a way of survival, but still, it’s something amazing if we consider the period of when all these things occurred. Also, the principles of “the law of the jungle”, in a less-serious meaning comparing to the past, are still used in our modern state.
When people were already organized in tribes, they had some norms and rules of