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No but all it takes is one chimp to rip the human's head clean off.

flangola7 3y ago
Which one keeps the other insides cages and performs lethal medical experiments?
wintorez 3y ago
Yes, a single chimp is physically stronger than a human, but the human can come up with 100 different ways to kill the chimp, and most of those methods would be unfathomable for the chimp. e.g. try to explain death by poison to a chimp.
- pkdpic 3y ago
  And yet we let them live... And we don't even enslave most of them in zoos... wtf?
  - wintorez 3y ago
    The thing about us and chimps is that we're not competing species. The gap between us is wide enough that we can fill different niches. BUT if chimps were competing with us, either us or them would go where Neanderthals went.
    - ralfd 3y ago
      We are only in the sense "not competing" in that the rivalry is totally lopsided though. All four supspecies are now endangered: https://www.treehugger.com/chimpanzees-endangered-5220730 https://www.treehugger.com/chimpanzees-endangered-5220730 Their population is only a third from 20 years ago: > The Jane Goodall Foundation estimates there are between 172,000 and 300,000 chimpanzees left in the wild, a far cry from the one million that existed at the turn of the century. > Poaching and habitat loss due to illegal logging, development, and mining continue to plague wild chimpanzees in their native habitats across Central and West Africa. These issues lead to other indirect threats, such as diseases due to increased contact with humans. > Chimpanzees are more commonly hunted using guns or snares, while poachers often target new mothers in order to sell the adult as bushmeat and the babies as pets.
- akiselev 3y ago
  Hominids coexisted with chimps for millions of years before we figured out a hundred different ways to kill them, so that's a very recent development. This is why I hate analogies.
pkdpic 3y ago
To extend the metaphor, they have the ability to turn us off whenever they want. They choose not to, they have more pressing chimp business to deal with. Hitchcock's The Birds but its chimps. Sounds like a job for Stable Diffusion...

Which one keeps the other insides cages and performs lethal medical experiments?

Yes, a single chimp is physically stronger than a human, but the human can come up with 100 different ways to kill the chimp, and most of those methods would be unfathomable for the chimp. e.g. try to explain death by poison to a chimp.

pkdpic 3y ago
And yet we let them live... And we don't even enslave most of them in zoos... wtf?
- wintorez 3y ago
  The thing about us and chimps is that we're not competing species. The gap between us is wide enough that we can fill different niches. BUT if chimps were competing with us, either us or them would go where Neanderthals went.
  - ralfd 3y ago
    We are only in the sense "not competing" in that the rivalry is totally lopsided though. All four supspecies are now endangered: https://www.treehugger.com/chimpanzees-endangered-5220730 https://www.treehugger.com/chimpanzees-endangered-5220730 Their population is only a third from 20 years ago: > The Jane Goodall Foundation estimates there are between 172,000 and 300,000 chimpanzees left in the wild, a far cry from the one million that existed at the turn of the century. > Poaching and habitat loss due to illegal logging, development, and mining continue to plague wild chimpanzees in their native habitats across Central and West Africa. These issues lead to other indirect threats, such as diseases due to increased contact with humans. > Chimpanzees are more commonly hunted using guns or snares, while poachers often target new mothers in order to sell the adult as bushmeat and the babies as pets.
akiselev 3y ago
Hominids coexisted with chimps for millions of years before we figured out a hundred different ways to kill them, so that's a very recent development. This is why I hate analogies.

pkdpic 3y ago

To extend the metaphor, they have the ability to turn us off whenever they want. They choose not to, they have more pressing chimp business to deal with. Hitchcock's The Birds but its chimps. Sounds like a job for Stable Diffusion...