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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27043767.

This guy has clearly never looked at an actual animal, like a dog dozing in the sun or a dolphin surfing along a wave for fun.

Right. Many predators only eat occasionally and then lie around doing nothing for days.

The presence of a predator scares the prey. And that is useful in many ways. It helps vegetation regenerate, among other things.

dogs aren't wild animals though - their existence really only exists b/c we allow it.

Wild, previously domesticated dogs are a thing. Some strays out there would continue to survive without humans around, too.

Humans ⊂ Animals, after all.

Objectively speaking there's nothing necessarily wrong with that? If anything could be something we aspire to