>If this was the case, then we would be as tolerant toward the house cat who plays with the bird before killing it without eating it as we would be toward a hum

>If this was the case, then we would be as tolerant toward the house cat who plays with the bird before killing it without eating it as we would be toward a human who acted likewise. I don't think that's fair. It's more that we recognise the futility in punishing a house cat, which is incapable of changing its ways nor of comprehending the pain it inflicts.