This always puzzled me. Why don’t humans act much more aggressive or crazed like its often depicted with animals. Afaik there’s 2 types of rabies, “dumb” and “furious” so my question is more towards the 2nd type. For example, we never hear of rabies causing a human to accidentally bite another human so why is that?

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    Humans have a highly developed prefrontal cortex that allows them to suppress their own impulses through conscious will.

    Humans don’t attack people when rabid because they know it’s wrong to do.

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          There are only two things I can’t stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the Dutch.

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            Given the Dutch’s colonial history, these aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive statements

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              If we’re blaming people for what their ancestors did hundreds of years ago then Imma need to see everyone your great great great great grandparents all ever did

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                I’m not blaming the current Dutch government, I’m blaming the old privateering regime. Same way that I can say that the British have blood on their hands for every escalated conflict in the middle-east, that does not mean that I blame the current British administration for it.