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Re:Orca That Carried Dead Calf for Weeks Appears to Be in Mo... by llamaimperative on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @10:15PM (#42641238)
There’s no such thing as “going against evolution.” Vegetarianism is as much a valid part of evolution as any other behavior any animal exhibits.

I think if lions regularly bred into existence billions of antelope, confined and tortured them for the entirety of their existence, and then ate them, yes, a lot of people would view that as pretty evil, even while acknowledging such a creature is probably incapable of the moral calculus that (some) humans are.

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Re:Orca That Carried Dead Calf for Weeks Appears to Be in Mo... by meiraleal on Monday January 20, 2025 @02:17PM (#42772037)
> I think if lions regularly bred into existence billions of antelope, confined and tortured them for the entirety of their existence

that's exactly what they do. Lions will remove other predators from their territory and indulge themselves eating as much food as they need.

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