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archer9234 on 26 October 2015
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FIT_Gamer said:

pokoko said:

 You seriously have no idea what you're talking about and you should probably look this up before you go any further.  Most animals don't give a damn if other animals outside their pack die or even suffer.

And, no, all the animals I mentioned are documented as killing for reasons outside of food or defense.  Cats will play with small animals before killing them.  They'll also kill kittens that do not belong to them--I've seen that happen, by the way, as we've had an entire litter wiped out.  Wolves will hunt down and kill animals when they're not hungry and leave the carcass.  Otters will play and kill with fish even when they're full.  Sea lions will tear the fins off of fish and leave them to die, just for fun.  

Chimps will bully, gang up on, and murder other chimps for no reason we can determine.  They'll play with and kill smaller animals, including other primates.  They will take baby chimps away from their mothers and kill them. 

The gentle dolphin?  They kill other species for fun.

As far as pigs go, my uncle raised hogs.  Some of the boars are big and nasty tempered and will knock you down and maul you.  Wild pigs will attack you and won't hesitate to kill and eat other animals.  

People think all animals stepped right out of Disney movies but that's not true at all.  Most animals are amoral.   

I never said those things don't happen. The scale in which those events happen pale in comparison to our acts towards them. In most cases if an animal kills another animal it's for the reasons listed. Point is the entire animal kingdom combined, is no where near as malicious towards each other as we human beings are to them. Whether directly or indirectly we cause more suffering and oppression for them than they could ever cause for each other. For a species who claims to be intellicually superior to other animals we sure go about showing it in very non-intellicual way.   

 

That's because there's 7 billion dominate people on the planet. Remove us form the equation. And I will say: if any other species on earth reached that dominate position. They'll do the similar things that people do. Even if they are not intelligent.