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Why are you applying human morals to cats?
by literallycancer 6y ago
Why are you applying human morals to cats?
- therealdrag0 6y agoHow are they?
- literallycancer 6y agoWe might consider it a bad thing to kill for sport, but why is it bad for animals like cats to enjoy hunting and killing other animals? Cats have no such moral restrictions.
- triceratops 6y agoNo morals were implied or intended. Hunting for sport is unconstrained by population feedback loops.
- therealdrag0 6y agoIt’s not about morals. It’s about environmental/ecosystem balance. Parent comment talked about feedback loops and over-hunting.
- literallycancer 6y ago>It's not even clear to me that birds are a primary food source for domesticated outdoor cats. They might be hunting them just for sport. This seems like a condemnation of hunting for sport to me.
- therealdrag0 6y agoWe must be coming from different places. I still don't see a condemnation at all. Other than the implication that sport is not constrained by hunger and therefor can have unbounded externalities, which again is not moral, it's a practical observation and concern for bird populations. Maybe you could pinpoint further which part of the sentence you quoted brings in morality.
- CapitalistCartr 6y agoHe's not; cats are notorious for hunting for pleasure. I love cats; I've owned many. They are little killing machines.