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Re:America’s bald eagle population continues to soar by verall on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @05:23PM (#26573118)
> Every animal needs to survive and will do anything to get by including scavenging.

Yea, and so do nations. The descriptors they used feel conformable describing both the nation and the mascot. It's not deeply provocative. It is a comparison that is interesting to read, because it describes how nations and animals can act similarly, but on difference scales.

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Re:America’s bald eagle population continues to soar by codemac on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @07:17PM (#26574323)
Except nations are a completely made up concept by groups of humans, rather than a deep survival drive of the individual when pushed into a life or death scenario.
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Re:America’s bald eagle population continues to soar by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @07:20PM (#26574364)
> Except nations are a completely made up concept by groups of humans

Every division of the universe into distinct constituents is a completely made up concept by groups of humans, including “humans” and “groups” thereof.

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Re:America’s bald eagle population continues to soar by z2 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:08PM (#26576129)
And what are individual humans but groups of cells trying to stave off entropy and survive just a bit longer?
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Re:America’s bald eagle population continues to soar by mandelbrotwurst on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @08:31PM (#26575013)
Animals categorize as well, e.g. food or not, threatening or not.
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