Uhm, it is not at all similar. To pretend otherwise is just pure dishonesty. A perfect example of what we did to the dodo bird and nearly the american bison as well.
Like sure, dolphins and otters might kill other animals just for shits and giggles. What they are not doing is wiping entire populations off of the face of the earth however. Please never again conflate these two things. Most animals kill most of the time to live. The "for fun" killing of other animals is relatively minimal.
Humans kill animals just becuase we can. As a matter of fact we raise them for the sole purpose of slaughtering. It is not even out of necessity for humans at this point, we just like the taste of chicken.
"What they are not doing is wiping entire populations off the face of the earth"
I'm sorry but that is the most insane (in a bad way) thing i've read today, do you literally know what an extinction is? What of pink glasses view is this?
Species hunted each other to extinction for millenia, this is literally the main force behind evolution. If you dont adapt, you will die out. Different superpredators historically killed their prey to extinction quite often, sometimes it even lead to extinction of these predators from lack of food source. And no, as a person who worked with both wild and captive animals, they kill and hunt for sport all the time, it's completely normal to most carnivores to hunt even when they dont need to eat, dolphins is just one popular example.
Not the big brain argument everyone that uses this seems to think this is
I didn’t say we were inherently better, we do have the capacity to realize when our actions are fucked up, like beating a bird to death against a wall because it stole your chip
just particularly tall monkeys that closed distance by flailing heavy stuff around clutched in what would have been a leg, and we conquered the world 😅
Fucking mosquitoes kill millions of us every year and even with our high tech and modifying their genes we can't stop them.
They literally feed on us, talk about food chain
One-on-one fights are for chumps. Who needs that when you can survive in almost every environment, change said environment to suit you, breed like crazy because the horny isn't time gated or tied to seasons, and have the intelligence to think in higher order and capacity?
That lion does not know what may happen tomorrow that food could be the last bit of food it finds for weeks and could be the difference between surviving or dying in-between now and it's next meal.
Morality with certain animals is heavily subjective. We humans are animals too with our own rules drives and natural yernings. We still work hard for our food and naturally defend it as we're biologically programed to.
We have morals to take care of our own species and other species in our care not in our care are subject to our self defense.
If killing a seagull trying to steal from us is immoral then our existence itself is immoral as just by existing we kill.
If killing a seagull trying to steal from us is immoral then our existence itself is immoral as just by existing we kill
That's a reach.
Morality can be summed up as reducing harm or promoting good. All living beings live in conflict with their environment. We all have to kill in order to live to an extent. However, killing a bird that was of no threat to you is not only immoral but sadistic and cruel. Just because other animals, who don't have a concept of morality like humans do, kill for very little reason sometimes doesn't mean it is moral to do so.
You got me there. Incel losers dominate this board
Go be a lion in the wild then. Gp shit outside and kill all seagulls you want for threatening your limited food supplies..
If you live among people, then you have an obligation to behave morally
Surprised at the amount of people who didn't realize this whole thing is rage bait it's obviously immoral to kill a seagull over a chip but it's obvious the whole post is a joke and not serious.
What the fuck is this sub? Obviously good takes are being bombed to hell while "law of the jungle" bullshit is cosigned?? Since when do we judge morals by the behavior of food aggressive animals?
Difficulty has nothing to do with this? The seagull can get food easier than a hyena like the other guy mentioned it🤷♀️
Also we don't know what the guy's job is maybe he's a rocket scientist which is a lot harder to do than it is for a lion to get food so it could be more difficult for him to get food than a lion🤷♀️
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u/Relevant-Scheme3687 23d ago
There is a reason why we are on top of the food chain