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Your view on empathy seems all-or-nothing. I have empathy for nature and wildlife which is why I have little empathy for humans, cows, cats, etc. E.g. Cats kil
by devmunchies 6y ago
Your view on empathy seems all-or-nothing. I have empathy for nature and wildlife which is why I have little empathy for humans, cows, cats, etc.
E.g. Cats kill billions of small birds and mice a year (think what that does to owl populations). It’s shouldn’t be legal to let house cats roam freely outside.
- onion2k 6y agothink what that does to owl populations Ok. If there was an abundance of food for the owls then we'd have many, many more owls, and they would kill billions of birds instead. We'd just be sacrificing cats for owls. Why is that better?
- abathur 6y agoThe burden of proof should probably be on the other side, here. Why is it better to introduce hundreds of millions of bored free-range emotional-support predators into any given ecosystem than to not do this?
- liaukovv 6y agoThey are cute.
- devmunchies 6y ago> sacrificing cats for owls. Why is that better? Seems tone deaf to ask this in a thread about biodiversity and species extinction. Because there are wayyyy more cats than owls. So we have more biodiversity.