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> The sentient leopard wouldn't have such pity for you, you're just a meal. Sorry, but no. Leopards are not mindless eating machines that can be treated like e
by titzer 5y ago
> The sentient leopard wouldn't have such pity for you, you're just a meal.
Sorry, but no. Leopards are not mindless eating machines that can be treated like evil robots with one intent. They have complex lives think about things, and feel pity, if limited. They are scrappy fighters getting pushed to the brink by human encroachment. They have shard minds and are shrewd when necessary. When they're gone, the world will have lost something seriously majestic--majestic in terms of millions of years of evolution and another branch of the tree of life sawed off. There will be only one reason that leopards go extinct, and that's us. They are consummate hunters, and they'll eat anything because they have to.
> dispelled myths about animals (where you among other things learn that dolphins and sea otters have rapists amongst their ranks).
If anything, the myth is that animals are simple, don't have issues, and don't live complex lives. Squirrel #57 is not the same as squirrel #43. That should make us want to stamp out their existence even less.
- Lordarminius 5y agoLeopards feel pity ? That is absolute nonsense.
- dTal 5y agoIt's not implausible. Domesticated cats are widely known to attempt to comfort their distressed humans.
- jmnicolas 5y agoThere's a few thousand years of domestication difference between the 2 species though.
- dTal 5y agoIn fact the most recent common ancestor of the domestic cat and the leopard lived on the order of 10 million years ago. But in any case, I was not endeavouring to prove that leopards feel pity, only to show that it was not so implausible as to merit such a dismissive response.
- bombcar 5y agoIt does not feel pity or remorse of fear and cannot be stopped unless killed. However maybe they could be domesticated over long time.
- itrollpussies 5y ago
- MPSimmons 5y agoMost humans, if they were hungry enough and in a position to do so, would kill and eat a baby impala, too. But humans can have and feel pity.