Generally, their only killing experiences are either warfare or criminal violence, experiences that are always negative and yield no constructive results. I think, sometimes, that the sheltering aspect of many southern cities encourages their inhabitans to regard themselves as invincible to nature, as being the very example of humanity's triumph over wilderness. But such urbanites ignore, to their peril, the fact that cities rely upon an intricate network of support facilities, as delicate as the pattern of a spider's web. Detach one corner, and half the web comes down. Yet the very nature of such a system, such a web, is to encourage its citizenry to believe that that every eventuality has been predicted and addressed beforehand.
Safety is the very purpose of a city.
Rarely have I ever seen Inuit shocked by anything that nature brings. Inuit know that they exist among the elements and the animals, not over them. And so I too have inherited this respect so long cultivated by Inuit, passed to me through my father, perhaps even to the both of us by the Land itself. The hunting paradox But all things come with a price, and Inuit tradition is no exception. Many Inuit can only deal with this paradox by cultivating a rough exterior, refusing to allow themselves to be moved by an animal's pain.