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Re:Sir David Attenborough makes stark warning about species ... by devmunchies on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:46PM (#24472942)
Your view on empathy seems all-or-nothing. I have empathy for nature and wildlife which is why I have little empathy for humans, cows, cats, etc.

E.g. Cats kill billions of small birds and mice a year (think what that does to owl populations). It’s shouldn’t be legal to let house cats roam freely outside.

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Re:Sir David Attenborough makes stark warning about species ... by onion2k on Monday September 14, 2020 @02:13PM (#24473255)
think what that does to owl populations

Ok. If there was an abundance of food for the owls then we'd have many, many more owls, and they would kill billions of birds instead. We'd just be sacrificing cats for owls. Why is that better?

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Re:Sir David Attenborough makes stark warning about species ... by abathur on Monday September 14, 2020 @03:10PM (#24473896)
The burden of proof should probably be on the other side, here.

Why is it better to introduce hundreds of millions of bored free-range emotional-support predators into any given ecosystem than to not do this?

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Re:Sir David Attenborough makes stark warning about species ... by liaukovv on Monday September 14, 2020 @03:55PM (#24474377)
They are cute.
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Re:Sir David Attenborough makes stark warning about species ... by devmunchies on Monday September 14, 2020 @06:12PM (#24475740)
> sacrificing cats for owls. Why is that better?

Seems tone deaf to ask this in a thread about biodiversity and species extinction.

Because there are wayyyy more cats than owls. So we have more biodiversity.

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