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> "That is why animals are incapable of contemplative immersion—either they are eating or they are copulating." I think there are many humans that fit into thi
by 29athrowaway 6y ago
> "That is why animals are incapable of contemplative immersion—either they are eating or they are copulating."
I think there are many humans that fit into this description.
- taneq 6y agoHumans ⊂ Animals, after all.
- greshario 6y agoThis guy has clearly never looked at an actual animal, like a dog dozing in the sun or a dolphin surfing along a wave for fun.
- mdgrech23 6y agodogs aren't wild animals though - their existence really only exists b/c we allow it.
- steve_adams_86 6y agoWild, previously domesticated dogs are a thing. Some strays out there would continue to survive without humans around, too.
- bonoboTP 6y agoRight. Many predators only eat occasionally and then lie around doing nothing for days.
- 29athrowaway 6y agoThe presence of a predator scares the prey. And that is useful in many ways. It helps vegetation regenerate, among other things.
- ackbar03 6y agoObjectively speaking there's nothing necessarily wrong with that? If anything could be something we aspire to
- dang 6y ago"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27043767 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27043767.