Why is man the worst beast of all? Where I live sometimes a sheep is killed by a wolf. Farmers who raise sheep get angry and want all the wolves killed. To them a world without wolves would be ideal. That the world would then be less magnificent without the creature, which the wolf is, would be okay with them. They see wolves as an expensive nuisance.

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They can’t see what any child can see because a child’s brain has not yet been corrupted by the idea that dollars and cents determine the value of wolves. Mostly, their value is negative because they kill livestock that have dollars-and-cents value. Man’s avarice leads to genocide if it is profitable. And shamefully for our species it makes no difference if what is being eliminated is a species such as wolves or unwanted cultures. The Bible illustrates genocidal thinking toward unwanted cultures:
In the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you. (Deuteronomy 20:16-17)
And who is the Lord? The Lord is the projection
human masculine will to power. When Christians invaded North America like the Israelites in Canaan they used religion justify the genocidal avarice. Their motive
was material consumption, not spirituality. Unlike the wolf, man’s appetite is
without limit. It is Faustian, the literary personification of aggressive
masculinity. And unlimited appetite leads to genocidal behavior that destroys the
soul and moral integrity. Appetite for sex, wealth, and power defines man, not
reason. As Freud warned, reason must be acquired and developed, appetite (the
id) is part and parcel of masculinity.
That is the difference between the wolf and man.
The wolf is dangerous but he is not evil. Only man is evil because his infinite
appetite makes him into a monster that seeks to consume the world, whereas the
wolf simply lives in it. Man, unlike the wolf, ceased to live in the world when
he chose to be the Lord of the World, which meant that only he had inherent
value and the value of all else was its contribution to his narcissistic Faustian
satisfaction. He has sought to tame the wild world and make it his slave. Why
is the wolf seen as noble and sublime and man as grotesque, repulsive, and ugly,
a monster of unrestrained aggressive appetite. The evidence is everywhere to be
seen—in Ukraine, Gaza, and the White House. Nothing has changed since the
Israelite were committing genocide in Canaan. That is man, the worst of beasts.

