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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 226462" data-attributes="member: 102">An animal stalks its prey to kill it. A killer stalks his victim. Stalking has a strong connotation of violence which in no way describes Mark&#039;s actions regarding Pam unless he intended to love her to death.Mark pursued Pam. It is literally what he did and there is no connotation in &quot;pursue&quot; that makes it out to be violent. &quot;Pursue&quot; describes what Mark was doing&nbsp; and it is a word neutral as to intent. Do we have any reason to think that Pam wishes someone has stopped Mark from pursuing her, or that she regrets the day she ever met him? No. By all indications she enjoyed Mark&#039;s company and was glad that he had the persistence to keep trying to charm her because she ended up having some wonderful times with Mark. I don&#039;t see negativity there; I see a positive result. That&#039;s why I say if Mark was a predator, he was a predator in the best sense of the word: an apex predator - an animal at the top of its food chain. We are the top of the food chain. That&#039;s because man is the rational animal. We are the only animal that cannot survive on instinct. To survive, we must use reason.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 226462, member: 102"] An animal stalks its prey to kill it. A killer stalks his victim. Stalking has a strong connotation of violence which in no way describes Mark's actions regarding Pam unless he intended to love her to death. Mark [B]pursued [/B]Pam. It is literally what he did and there is no connotation in "pursue" that makes it out to be violent. "Pursue" describes what Mark was doing and it is a word neutral as to intent. Do we have any reason to think that Pam wishes someone has stopped Mark from pursuing her, or that she regrets the day she ever met him? No. By all indications she enjoyed Mark's company and was glad that he had the persistence to keep trying to charm her because she ended up having some wonderful times with Mark. I don't see negativity there; I see a positive result. That's why I say if Mark was a predator, he was a predator in the best sense of the word: an apex predator - an animal at the top of its food chain. We are the top of the food chain. That's because man is the rational animal. We are the only animal that cannot survive on instinct. To survive, we must use reason. [/QUOTE]

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