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> Accounts that glorified the "adventure" of going into their habitats, killing their prey, and then shooting them with gun powder and a metal slug. Except for
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago
> Accounts that glorified the "adventure" of going into their habitats, killing their prey, and then shooting them with gun powder and a metal slug.
Except for the gun powder and metal slugs, that “adventure” is the story of humanity’s rise and spread. Humans are native to only a very small part of the world. We became the way we are because humans did go into new habitats, challenged the apex predators, took their prey, and displaced the previous apex predators.
That story of adventure resonates because it has resonated for millennia (consider the myths and paintings and sculptures). That story resonates, because you and I are descendants of people just like that who entered new habitats and outthought, outorganized, and outfought, all the predators that would want to kill them.
So my sympathies are with the man and not the leopard.
- krisoft 5y ago> that “adventure” is the story of humanity’s rise and spread. It is a very different story when one kills a predator to make a new safe living space for themselves and their family. The person in question had a safe and comfortable place to live and went out of their way to kill a sentient being and then left the area thus secured. One is about necessity and the other is a blood sport.
- lazide 5y agoHow do you figure humanity spreads if it never leaves those safe spaces?
- krisoft 5y agoIt sounds like you are not reading what I wrote. Humanity does not spread by going from A to B, killing things in B and then returning to A. That is tourism and not spreading. Also where does it say that humanity have to spread? I’m sympathetic with people whose current location become undesirable and they have to move to a new place. But “spreading” is not the goal.
- dbsmith83 5y agoAll life spreads and lives wherever they can--humans included. That's just how life on Earth works. It is the natural way of things, for better or worse
- lazide 5y agoAnd while it is possible to coast on prior success, or find an isolated enough niche, and pretend that it is not fundamental to all life everywhere - that doesn’t make it less of a delusion. Society uses, builds, and works to maintain delusions like this because it helps keep us all from a mad max future. It’s one of those ‘useful to believe’ things most of the time. But don’t buy it so much you let someone use it against you as a weapon, instead of as a mutual agreement.