The quote is, "Truth is the first casualty of war." Actually, various members of the standing army are the first to be killed. And people dislike crows for th

The quote is, "Truth is the first casualty of war." Actually, various members of the standing army are the first to be killed. And people dislike crows for their particularly stupid qualities, ie, cawing endlessly for no reason, or their destructiveness. The finest quality of the bird isn't its intelligence but its habit of eating dead animals on roadsides. Crows, while intelligent birds, are complete idiots compared to humans. Songbirds, by contrast, are better composers and better looking than 99 percent of humans. It comes down to that, I think.