We are hell-bent on raising specimens of genius and talent.
The emphasis is always on conflict over limited food supplies and mating opportunities, as if we are hell-bent on finding in nature the competitive struggle of our own society.
So, when Mr Gove says (as he did in the Mail on Sunday) that we are "hell-bent on destroying our schools" we reply with some of the evidence that it is he who is the destroyer.
Packham said that the urbanisation of the fox was "celebrated" in the late 1960s but "now we've seemingly tired of their antics and we're hell-bent on blaming them for all the crimes we can.
He suggested that war was still not inevitable, saying: "To people who say we are hell-bent on conflict, we still say today it can be avoided, if he does what the United Nations and the international community demands he do".
"If he had anything to do with covering this thing up," the commonwealth's attorney, Raymond C. Robertson, said as residents lined the City Council chambers to hear the news, "we are hell-bent on finding out what it was and why".
"Here at CamSoda we are hell-bent on developing a mobile friendly website that is simple for our models and users to use.
Which is a fine thing, but if we're hell-bent on wiping out any evidence of our failures, we're in danger of losing something precious -- the magic of the accident, the oddity, the surprise.
"But we did have significant resistance back then and antagonistic people who were hell-bent on doing what they wanted to do.
"These guys doing the investigating were hell-bent on finding something Siegelman did wrong," Mr. Jones said.
"There were quite a lot of people who were hell-bent on violence and destroying property," he said.
