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Re:Mass die-off of birds in south-western US 'caused by star... by triceratops on Saturday December 26, 2020 @04:29PM (#25546589)
Unlike wild predators or feral cats, domesticated, human-owned cats don't live or die by how much they kill. There's no feedback loop that would prevent them from hunting their prey into extinction. If they over-hunt birds one season and can't catch enough the next, their owners will simply supplement the difference.

It's not even clear to me that birds are a primary food source for domesticated outdoor cats. They might be hunting them just for sport.

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Re:Mass die-off of birds in south-western US 'caused by star... by literallycancer on Saturday December 26, 2020 @05:24PM (#25546912)
Why are you applying human morals to cats?
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Re:Mass die-off of birds in south-western US 'caused by star... by CapitalistCartr on Saturday December 26, 2020 @09:12PM (#25548229)
He's not; cats are notorious for hunting for pleasure. I love cats; I've owned many. They are little killing machines.
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Re:Mass die-off of birds in south-western US 'caused by star... by therealdrag0 on Saturday December 26, 2020 @05:58PM (#25547122)
How are they?
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Re:Mass die-off of birds in south-western US 'caused by star... by literallycancer on Friday January 01, 2021 @08:07AM (#25602985)
We might consider it a bad thing to kill for sport, but why is it bad for animals like cats to enjoy hunting and killing other animals? Cats have no such moral restrictions.
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Re:Mass die-off of birds in south-western US 'caused by star... by triceratops on Friday January 15, 2021 @02:16AM (#25787957)
No morals were implied or intended. Hunting for sport is unconstrained by population feedback loops.
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Re:Mass die-off of birds in south-western US 'caused by star... by therealdrag0 on Friday January 01, 2021 @09:40AM (#25603537)
It’s not about morals. It’s about environmental/ecosystem balance. Parent comment talked about feedback loops and over-hunting.
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Re:Mass die-off of birds in south-western US 'caused by star... by literallycancer on Friday January 01, 2021 @11:41AM (#25604448)
>It's not even clear to me that birds are a primary food source for domesticated outdoor cats. They might be hunting them just for sport.

This seems like a condemnation of hunting for sport to me.

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Re:Mass die-off of birds in south-western US 'caused by star... by therealdrag0 on Friday January 01, 2021 @12:16PM (#25604741)
We must be coming from different places.

I still don't see a condemnation at all. Other than the implication that sport is not constrained by hunger and therefor can have unbounded externalities, which again is not moral, it's a practical observation and concern for bird populations.

Maybe you could pinpoint further which part of the sentence you quoted brings in morality.

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