both predator and prey are competing for the body

(or 'survival machine') of the prey.

the act of predation can be broken down into a maximum of four stages: detection of prey, attack, capture and finally consumption.

the relationship between predator and prey is one which is typically beneficial to the predator, and detrimental to the prey species.

fight or flight (or the reciprocity of surrender)

‘Sexual love makes of the loved person an object of appetite; as soon as that appetite has been stilled, the person is cast aside as one casts away a lemon which has been sucked dry. … as soon as a person becomes an object of appetite for another, all motives of moral relationship cease to function, because as an object of appetite for another a person becomes a thing and can be treated and used as such by every one.’

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