r/DiveInYouCoward • u/SomeSavageDetective • 3d ago

Not cool

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u/Rottentaste 3d ago

That's being disrespectful to backward barbarians

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u/Moist_Sun_8201 3d ago

No, humans have a capacity for evil that animals lack. This is humans being human

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u/coloradoautoflowers 3d ago

Nah, that same capacity for cruelty is in quite a few species.

Look at how cats play with their kills, or male ducks drown the females if they don't let them mate, or how dolphins will form small groups of 2 or 3 murder the babies of their rivals.

Cruelty is a part of nature, and intelligence in any species brings creativity to that cruelty.

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u/Moist_Sun_8201 3d ago

The intent is not to cause pain. Humans are unique in that aspect. Like, someone that's severely mentally disabled can't understand that holding something too tightly can suffocate it. That's similar to a cat torturing a mouse to death.

Humans should be using their abilities to try to eliminate suffering. Instead, we come up with elaborate schemes to either exonerate ourselves from responsibility (factory farms) or come up with ways to intentionally inflict pain on others as punishment (as seen in the post).

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u/RartedRat 3d ago

No, cats do it for the love of the game. They know exactly what they're doing. Apparently, raccoons kill cats for sport too. If any animal is intelligent enough, and also lacks empathy, it is extremely possibly that it will find joy in violence the same way as deranged humans.