(March 6, 2015 at 10:48 am)abaris Wrote:(March 6, 2015 at 10:36 am)JuliaL Wrote: We don't, and probably cannot, intimately understand the perspective of a tiger (or bear) who might kill a child to provide food for its own cubs. The best I can extrapolate is that it just doesn't care.
And why should they care? Do we really care when animals are killed to feed and cloth us.
On the other hands you have examples of animal empathy, such as that one video where a giant bear at the zoo gently picks a drowning raven out of his pond. He could have crushed it with his jaws, but he simply put it onto the banks and went on his merry way.
We don't know why that moron got killed by that bear. Maybe it was a mother feeling a threat for their young, maybe it was an animal he simply got too close for comfort. Humans aren't usually on the bear menu.
I almost never think badly of animals who kill humans. We don't care when humans kill animals or when animals kill other animals. I feel sad when person is killed, for them and their family. I don't think anything bad of then animal though. Unless it's a cougar. Those things are fucking evil. Just not big enough to kill humans.
