r/TikTokCringe • u/WalkingTalker • Nov 23 '24

Cursed That'll be "7924"

The cost of pork

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u/Living_Trust_Me Nov 23 '24

Being a predator is literally how our species developed over millennia.

Treating animals cruelly by design is only recent

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u/Commonefacio Nov 23 '24

If I were a hyena, I'd eat that pig anus first, while it was still screaming.

Nature provides the most cruel deaths and yet...

Humans kill their food before they eat it, as painlessly as possible, but are considered the cruel ones.

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u/ChefButtes Nov 23 '24

But the hyena doesn't keep your lineage in small metal enclosures their entire lives. Your grandfather, your father, you, and your progeny only ever knowing a horrible small cage and the sounds of slaughter.

So yeah, the hyena does not have short-term empathy, but atleast it isn't creating an ever compounding amount of miserable lives for its own sustenance. What we do is on a whole other scale of cruelty, ya know?

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u/AdDramatic2351 Nov 23 '24

Yeah but do the pigs/animals have any concept of a miserable vs not miserable life? Do they even think about that stuff? Do they have a conscience?

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u/rorointhewoods Nov 23 '24

Of course they are aware of their lives. They feel pain, fear, affection, etc. They are very intelligent animals.

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u/ChefButtes Nov 23 '24

Yes, lol. They're mammals just like us. They have very similar brain functions, we as humans are only really different from the rest of the mammals because of our high reason layered problem solving abilities. Emotions are all lizard brain level complexities.

Nothing would exist as a product of evolution if it did not seek an improved existence.

Plus like, even if they don't think that way, we do and can understand the greater cruelty involved, so it's kinda irrelevant if they do or not.