with you – he can sell you, he can kill you, he can make you his slave or the slave of someone else, he can abuse you, torture you, you have no idea what he will do. if you are a docile donkey with no will and no wisdom, you will let the man climb on your back and go wherever he wants you to go.
if you are a kicking donkey, you know that your job is to look for a way of escape – or if there is no way to escape, you wait for just the right moment to kick as hard as you can, to break away 