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Are you a Sheep, a Wolf or a Sheepdog?

Sheep are people who want to be taken care of and lack the capacity for violence or self defense that characterise the Sheepdog or the Wolf. They exist as a group where individualism is shunned to the expense of groupthink.

The Wolf is the predator. He lives for himself at the expense of others. Where guile works not, he employs violence or abuse as tools.

The Sheep dog wishes in a way that he were Sheep, but his capacity for realism, self-sufficiency (or awareness), and capacity for the same violence as the Wolf put him in the middle. He decides to take sides and protect the Sheep even when the Sheep themselves see him no better than a Wolf. Normally only a Sheepdog can understand what motivates another Sheepdog.

Is there another classification that I am missing?

I am Sheepdog. I did not become so until later in life than most Sheep who become Sheepdogs.

I could be Wolf, but honor, integrity, and respect for "What is Right" prevent this. Do Sheep KNOW they are Sheep?

Update:

Rags91, you may be a Sheepdog. Sheep have a very hard time understanding the Sheepdog. Rather than take the abuse, your lonerism may be the mechanism that keeps you from being true Wolf and turning on the Sheep.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Shepherd and no most people dont realize that they just go with the flow.Your taught now not to defend yourself but to tell on them. Its in our society, shame, but I myself am teaching our kids to protect themselves and others and not to believe in everything they tell you make up your own mind.don't want to turn into to much like a totalitarian society.

  • 1 decade ago

    I'm definitely a Sheepdog.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    i think i am a wolf not because i support violence but because im a loner , a person who drives people away

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I dont accept labels. I am a human being. Period.

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