By Dr. Adnan Bozan

Man has never truly been a rational being, as classical philosophies have claimed. Since the very moment of his emergence from nature’s primordial womb, he has been a predatory creature—one who hides within his ribs a weapon more lethal than the fangs of a wolf or the claws of a tiger: consciousness.

Reason, in its essence, has never been a tool for understanding the world, but rather a sharpened blade aimed at dominating it—and at devouring fellow man. From the first threads woven into the fabric of “awareness of the other,” the other was never perceived as a partner, but as a postponed prey. Man does not see man; he sees a resource, an enemy, a rival, or merely an obstacle to be removed from the path of his instincts—instincts masked behind the guise of civility.

Morality: The Panic After the Feast

When man preys upon his fellow man, he does not remain a beast content with his crime. Instead, he becomes a trembling being tormented by a hidden question:
"Will I be the next victim?"
From this fear, morality was born—not as the fruit of pure reason, nor as a revelation from a merciful god, but as a moment of collective terror, a reaction to an insatiable greed that could not be restrained.

After every massacre, man awakens—not out of remorse, but out of fear of retribution. After every betrayal, the self gives birth to a forged covenant called “conscience.”

Shame? Ethics? Law?
They are all desperate attempts to persuade the beast within that it can be tamed by words.

Laws: The Golden Cages of the Predator

What we call “order,” “society,” or even “civilization,” is nothing more than a clever mechanism to suppress instincts—not in the name of virtue, but in the name of fear.
Man does not submit to the law out of morality, but because he fears becoming the victim in the next round. Thus, he accepts the cage—on the condition that everyone else is locked in with him.

What we perceive as nobility is merely a postponement of slaughter, and what we call coexistence is nothing but a fragile truce between fangs still searching for a vulnerable neck to sink into.

When the Masks Fall

Look to war, to moments of collapse, to chaos, to battles over bread, water—even ideas.
In such moments, “humanity” vanishes like smoke, and the beast returns to its original nature.
Man needs no more than an opportunity—a mere opportunity—to reveal that the prey has always been in his sights.

Even love, which we so often deem the purest of emotions, is in essence a spiritual predation. It is an attempt to possess the other, to dominate emotionally—just as the lover seeks to subjugate the beloved with an insatiable desire.

What, Then, Is Man?

Man is neither a rational creature nor a social one.
He is the only animal that justifies his predation. He does not kill because he is hungry, but because he thinks he can.
He does not betray out of need, but because he has calculated that the other will not notice.

Consciousness—the very gift exalted by the human intellect—was never a path to transcendence, but a precise mechanism for justifying crime.

In the End

We are not victims of the devil...
We are the devil himself, cloaked in human skin, adorned with the letters of morality, and fluent in the language of virtue.

Perhaps the greatest deception man has ever committed was to convince himself that he is not a predator—but merely an ethical being who sometimes errs.
Yet the terrifying truth is this:
Man is always a predator, pretending to be moral only when there is no blood in sight

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