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This is our shared empathy oriented brains shared by other animals to remind us we are all are important to this planet.Interesting show about animals having odd friends
You should, it is some really amazing stories to be honestIt's too long to watch now but I plan to watch it very soon.
cruelty common among animals
Is not cruelty a human concept? "Intentional pain" does not fully define "cruelty." What makes it cruel or not is the motivation behind it. So for example a lion killing the young males of others is to maintain territorial supremacy, it is not because of some sick pleasure.
I believe not. I think the hunting and hunger parts of a cat's brain are separate so they will often maintain attacking behaviours but not kill and immediately eat if they are not hungry.Cats can have hours of fun tormenting a mouse or bird, lizard or snake before they eventually kill it. To me that is cruelty.
But typically an animal does not play with its food before eating?
Agree for the most part it is survival of the fittestNone of us are important in this planet.
Even if I were to go with the literal meaning of the term cruelty
We can be utterly unimportant and still do good.You guys are arguing over semantics. Regardless the literal meaning of the term "cruelty", my point is our empathy oriented brains are not really common among animals [even in humans, to me it seems empathy is rare (and human history backs me up on that)].
Even if I were to go with the literal meaning of the term cruelty, there are many cases in animals where they cause intentional harm just to derive sadistic sick pleasure from it. like one example given by Christine, and necrophilia, rape, infanticide and other examples I've come across.
My point is, nature as a whole is brutal and devoid of goodness. None of us are important in this planet.