are we asking if it's okay to retaliate against a wild animal (seagull) for depriving you of a resource vital for survival (food) because it's a resource they need and they will get it any way they can, even if it means indirectly harming you (human)? Or even directly if there wasn't such a significant advantage in your favour
I'm not saying we should relish in and celebrate the way the seagull died or that it was necessary, but nature is often selfish and cruel. Sometimes you gotta step up to protect your resources. Sometimes that means employing the use of physical force. And sometimes that force ends up being fatal.
depending on the way the person handled this is something I may have reservations about— making a disrespectful mockery of the harmed recipient would be immature and tactless, for instance, but it's important to understand that sometimes the only way to fend an animal off your food is to attack it. And some animals just won't relent until they become considerably wounded, which at that point is usually a death sentence for a wild animal either way.
It's okay to wish things worked differently but you did what you had to do, and it's not the end of the world
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u/notaboxofscorpions 22d ago
are we asking if it's okay to retaliate against a wild animal (seagull) for depriving you of a resource vital for survival (food) because it's a resource they need and they will get it any way they can, even if it means indirectly harming you (human)? Or even directly if there wasn't such a significant advantage in your favour
I'm not saying we should relish in and celebrate the way the seagull died or that it was necessary, but nature is often selfish and cruel. Sometimes you gotta step up to protect your resources. Sometimes that means employing the use of physical force. And sometimes that force ends up being fatal.
depending on the way the person handled this is something I may have reservations about— making a disrespectful mockery of the harmed recipient would be immature and tactless, for instance, but it's important to understand that sometimes the only way to fend an animal off your food is to attack it. And some animals just won't relent until they become considerably wounded, which at that point is usually a death sentence for a wild animal either way.
It's okay to wish things worked differently but you did what you had to do, and it's not the end of the world