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How cavalier we are about taking life of other species.
by babesh 9y ago
How cavalier we are about taking life of other species.
- criley2 9y agoWe're arguably the least cavalier about taking life of any life on earth. In the wild, life is so cheap and valueless that when we witness unspeakable acts of horrific wild violence, we have to condition it: wild is wild, nature is nature, human expectations and morality don't apply.
- abhishivsaxena 9y agoReally? What did you have for lunch today? All the herbivores in Animal Kingdom would disagree with that statement.
- monkmartinez 9y agoNo really. Go to /r/natureismetal and witness it for yourself. Here is a goat eating baby chickens...http://imgur.com/kHJhMjW http://imgur.com/kHJhMjW
- mikeash 9y agoPlants still count as life.
- mod 9y agoIn many (most?) cases herbivores aren't taking the life of the plant. Think of a squirrel, perhaps, and how it feeds on plants. (Still don't agree with the GP)
- mikeash 9y agoGood point, but I think squirrels are a bad example. They're not only taking lives, they're killing the babies!
- mod 9y agoOn the contrary, I imagine a lot of the nuts are planted by squirrels! In either case, many plants have an implicit bargain with animals: eat my fruit, but you must carry my seeds out beyond where I can reach and deposit them there. Which happens when they pass through the gut, essentially.
- FoeNyx 9y agoNot sure I understand what you are trying to say. Herbivores, by definition, do eat living organisms (plants).
- gasbag 9y ago> We're arguably the least cavalier about taking life of any life on earth. Fungi beat us in this respect. Most of them feed exclusively on dead matter.
- njarboe 9y agoBut those that do? A fungal infection leading to death is a slow, horrible way to die.
- drak0n1c 9y agoIt is just as cavalier and anthropocentric to impose a deliberate ecological aesthetic based on the idea of preservation. Cyanobacteria oxygenated the world and caused mass extinction of most Earth species. Life moved on.