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Why are people surprised and shocked by this? If a pack of stray dogs killed a human child, we would exterminate them without further thought, and we would cal
by fallingknife 5y ago
Why are people surprised and shocked by this? If a pack of stray dogs killed a human child, we would exterminate them without further thought, and we would call it "animal control." Even when an otherwise protected species like a bear in a national park kills a human, we make an exception and kill that animal.
- tantalor 5y ago> Why are people surprised Who said anybody is surprised?
- fallingknife 5y agoIt's posted to HN. You wouldn't see "${western_city} Animal Control Removes Stray Dogs from Park After Child Killed" on HN.
- tantalor 5y agoIt's newsworthy because it's unusual, not surprising
- tsegers 5y agoAnd neither would you see headlines about a human child learning to read, yet if a monkey were to do the same it'd be up here in no time. The noteworthy thing here is not the activity performed, but what entity the activity was performed by.
- johndevor 5y agoThis is not a small group of dogs, but a prolonged war between two species.
- cdrini 5y agoUm, because it was monkeys that did it, not humans? And humans =/= to monkeys? It's surprising because (a) we generally consider revenge to be a human emotion, so seeing it in animals is a bit surprising, (b) seeing a coordinated attack between two species that are kind of adjacent on the food chain isn't super common. Killing in the animal world is primarily done for hunting. The monkeys aren't eating the dogs, they're just killing them.