Humans don’t have it better then animals

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It boggles my mind that everyone makes such a big fuss over the suffering of animals, but they don’t give a crap about other people. I watched a video on YouTube of a guy eating an octopus alive, and the comment section had people talking about wanting to torture and kill the guy. Seriously. Over an octopus.

People also like to make it out like we have it so much better then animals because we aren’t getting eaten, which is not true. Thousands of people are eaten by domestic and wild animals across the globe every year. And we also have to deal with attacks from each other.
I personally think our world is WAY worse than the animal world. People not only get attacked and eaten, but they also get abused, traumatized, sold into slavery, killed for fun by other human beings, tortured, have to deal with shootings and terrorism, and basically any bad thing you can think of also happens to us.

I’m afraid to even be out in public because I feel like someone’s going to kill me.

People need to stop putting animals above humans. We are suffering just as much.

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jack_shephard

5 years ago | pl

Well harming any living being for no reason is wrong whether it's an animal or humans.

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- Alichael
  
  5 years ago
  
  I agree, it's very wrong, except maybe like with insects and such. Most people don't mourn after swatting a fly or calling an exterminator to kill a termite infestation.
  
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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  5 years ago
  
  True
  
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RoseIsabella

5 years ago

Whether or not you agree with them people are entitled to have their opinions.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  5 years ago
  
  They are. Just not when it’s advocating killing people to save animals.
  
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  - RoseIsabella
    
    5 years ago
    
    Holding an opinion is one thing, and taking an action is another. I think a lot of people just like to say shit to vent, and get it off their chests. People say lots of shit they don't mean when they're angry.
    
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JellyBeanBandit

5 years ago

Thousands of people get eaten each year? That's absolutely nothing compared to the amount of animals that are eaten. There are tens of billions of animals killed each year. Plus half of those people that were eaten were probably drunken idiots fucking around in the wild despite being warned of the dangers. At least they got to live a free and happy life up to that point, they weren't imprisoned since birth with their only purpose in life to be eventually killed and sold by their owners. And again, all of those bad things you mentioned that happen to humans is miniscule compared to the scale it happens to animals. Besides, humans are the only animals in the world that has the capacity to understand that it's wrong to do all that, and yet they do it anyway. That's why it's truly evil.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  5 years ago
  
  A lot of them are children killed by dogs actually. Look up the stats.
  And again, farming is not slavery. If you think it is then you’ve never been on a farm. Comparing farming to things like terrorism and human trafficking is laughable.
  
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  - JellyBeanBandit
    
    5 years ago
    
    Well like I said, the dogs don't know that what they're doing is a bad thing. They're just following their natural instincts in an unnatural environment, that's not their fault. It's their owners' fault for not watching them (and for usually mistreating them in those cases).
    
    Clearly you've never seen the abuses that go on in factory farms and slaughterhouses. Plus like I've said before, illegal underground human trafficking is miniscule compared to the perfectly legal entire industries built around enslaving and killing animals.
    
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    - Anonymous Post Author
      
      5 years ago
      
      I have seen the abuses of slaughterhouses. Ones that actually do those things need to be shut down, but also a lot of the videos put out online are propaganda. Go to an actual slaughterhouse and watch how it’s done. Very rarely are they deliberately torturing the animals. Again it’s extremely silly to compare farming to human trafficking.
      
      Yes, dogs do know what they’re doing actually. Unless they’ve been abused there’s really no excuse. My dog was barely trained or socialized at all as a puppy and she’s bitten me before, but she’s very gentle with children. She knows that they don’t know any better. The only time she has snapped at them is when a boy walked up to her and was being really dumb and tried to pick her up. She chased and snapped at him, but I highly doubt she would’ve done any serious damage. Dogs are not as dumb as people think. Unless the child is doing something threatening to the dog there’s really no excuse.
      Children also don’t know right from wrong. They have to be taught it. There’s been many children killed and severely disfigured in dog attacks just for petting the dog’s head. They didn’t know that petting the puppy’s face meant they were going to get attacked. And most dogs know not to attack a tiny child. Just as with everything there are exceptions to this, but most family dogs know not to kill their owner’s child.
      
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EnglishLad

5 years ago

Humans see a zebra as a stripey black and white horse. Cheetahs and lions see a zebra as food.

Practically every animal that isn't a herbivore has the tendency to get violent when it needs to.

We are not a placid species, and neither were we supposed to be.

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Cliche1234

5 years ago

I hate people who are overly sensitive and thought it's cruel to kill pests like centipede, rats etc...it's just ridiculous when even pests that can harm you should be some protected species. I swear I found lots of people like this on Youtube.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  5 years ago
  
  Exactly. Or feral hogs especially. Anyone who uses dogs to hunt feral pigs is evil apparently.
  
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geek_god_101

5 years ago

This is an interesting post. I want to mention that in some marriages the pets receive more attention than the spouse and that is absolutely pathetic. I am talking about dogs smaller than turkeys with the maturity level of a newborn. Blah! :\

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bogbrush

5 years ago

Excellent and well thought out post paramore93.

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- paramore93
  
  5 years ago
  
  Thank you :)
  
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mischieflover

5 years ago

humans ARE animals. i DONT view human as the end all be all, for exactly reasons you listed. we're HORRIBLE to one another AND other nonhuman animals. i plan on living off n traveling from blm land n off grid locations to the next n have hopes of buying my own small patch of land to live off of and just be on my own. ive suffered so much at the hands of my own damn species, i have no love for any other humans.

i agree we dont have it easy, cuz of all the fucked up shit, but we are the ones that cause our own damn misery to eachother and other animals in the first place.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  5 years ago
  
  I don’t love my species either. I’ve experienced so much shit I don’t even want to talk to other humans anymore. I’m just tired of people saying “kill all the humans” because not everyone deserves it and that also involves me. And I haven’t done anything.
  
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  - Alichael
    
    5 years ago
    
    Yes. It's kind of a problem because of all the fucked up people out there has caused almost everyone to distrust every other single person they see, whether they've done anything wrong or not. The good people are always paying for the fuck ups' stupidity because every time we see a stranger, we assume they could either be the sweetest person, some stupid dumbass, or a deranged killer. Unfortunately, it's become human nature to always assume the latter as a possibility due to, again, all the bad people ruining it for everyone else.
    
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  - mischieflover
    
    5 years ago
    
    yea i certainly dont say kill all humans cuz i do recognize there are good ones, id consider myself good, and my ego isnt big enough to assume im the only one out of over 7 billion people, that think and feel like i do, so i dont think we all need to die off lol. that said i still have no desire to interact or seek out those that are good also, way too jaded, mistrusting and too damn tired for that, i just want to be on my own.
    
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paramore93

5 years ago

You clearly don't know much about the world outside your bedroom.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  5 years ago
  
  Um, you clearly don’t know that much either. Have you ever watched people being killed? Do you even know all the horrible shit that’s going on???
  Do animals get sex trafficked? Do animals have to flee countries because of war and crime? Do animals have to deal with school shootings and terrorism? Do animals have to be terrified every single day of their life that someone is going to kill them?
  Animals have some horrible shit happen to them too, I’m not denying that. But humans have it way worse. And we’re also better able to process what’s going on, thus meaning we feel the full extent of everything. With animals, unless it’s happening to them personally they don’t even know what’s going on. A zebra isn’t anxious 24/7 about being attacked by a lion until they actually see or smell the lion.
  
  What I’m trying to say, is all creatures are suffering but humans really have the worst end of the stick.
  
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  - paramore93
    
    5 years ago
    
    'Do animals have to be terrified every single day of their life that someone is going to kill them?' Short answer, yes.
    'Do animals have to flee countries because of war and crime?' Yes. Also, ever heard of deforestation?
    'Thousands of people are eaten by wild animals across the globe every year' Okay fair enough but 50 000 000 000+ animals each year are bred, locked up then killed so you can eat for a cheap price.
    Sex trafficking and slavery? I'll let you look into the breeding programs some zoos still have.
    Imagine you're an african elephant driven out of your home thanks to deforestation. Your herd has been starving and dehydrated for days and you smell some water in the distance. On the left there are humans waiting to kill you for your ivory and on the right there is a family of hungry lions. Half of your herd has already died of dehydration. If you turn back your entire herd will probably die so you go towards the water. On the way your calf is cornered and killed by the hungry lions (because they're starving too). When the lioness returns she finds the male lions have eaten all her cubs because they want their cubs to be the next generation. The elephants keep going and more are killed by poachers for their ivory. You finally make it to the water, it's contaminated and the rest of the calves are poisoned and die. Are you saying that wouldn't be traumatizing?
    Humans do have some equally fucking awful shit happen to them but I don't think we should be so self absorbed that we think our suffering is any worse than any other species. I'm not saying we have it easy but we have the opposable thumbs and brain power to lessen all kinds of suffering, yet we don't.
    
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    - Anonymous Post Author
      
      5 years ago
      
      That’s true. My point is though that we need to stop putting animal suffering ahead of human suffering. We’re ALL suffering on this planet. And most humans are suffering because of other humans and don’t have the power to stop it. We also process suffering on a deeper level than animals do because of our brain capacity.
      I’m just tired of people demonizing all humans for the actions of the bad ones. It’s like demonizing all pitbulls because a few have attacked people.
      P.S, Captive breeding is not cruel. To compare it to sex trafficking is kind of silly.
      
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      - paramore93
        
        5 years ago
        
        Yeah I get you. It's just a shame that often the people who have the power to change things couldn't give a fuck.
        
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  - Alichael
    
    5 years ago
    
    You actually got a point, this is another example of how ignorance is bliss. When you don't know as much, you don't worry as much. Animals don't contain the knowledge of how miserable and fucked up this world is, they can gallop around their merry way without a care in the world and not be scared until the actual moment that a tiger is chasing them or pouncing on them. People know a lot more making it harder to relax and forget about all the stresses and dangers that could happen to them, and do happen.
    
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Anonymous Post Author

5 years ago

Yep. They’re scary little boogers too. I don’t wish for them to be eradicated like a lot of people do, but they definitely need their numbers controlled.

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mischieflover

5 years ago

i guess we went different directions. ive been through horrific sexual abuse and abandonment as well. raped from 4 through to 14 (10 years), 'family' siding with abuser and abondoning me, father locked up in prison, his family wanting nothing to do with me or my brother for first 11 years of our lives. what few 'friends' i had (ONE) from highschool has left as well as soon as highschool ended.

i guess for me its made me just be done with human interaction. my OWN species is the one that hurt me, not animals and nature, but other humans, and because of that i have no desire to be around, stick up for or advocate for humans. i dont say kill all humans cuz i recognize theres others out there like me that have suffered like me too, that said i still have no desire to seek those others out to converse or bond etc. no thank you, ive had my fill of other humans to last me the rest of my life.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  5 years ago
  
  We’re very similar actually. I was sexually abused by my birth father and put up for adoption (abandoned) by my mother. I really have no love for people as a whole and I don’t even trust my adoptive parents. But I believe that animal rights has gone too far. There’s even groups advocating for the killing of certain people just to save animals like lab rats. I used to be an ARA but I’m not anymore because of that. They’re becoming too extreme and are advocating murdering innocent people just because they eat meat or use animals in some way. I’m all for things like animal welfare and animal liberation (such as releasing animals from fur farms) as those things do nothing but help other living beings, but in the animal rights movement you’re evil if you even eat meat. I don’t trust human beings at all, but an innocent child has just as much right to live as a pig. I still feel like that helpless child I was, so I fight so no other children have to feel that same way ever again.
  
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  - mischieflover
    
    5 years ago
    
    im prochoice and proabortion, that said the children that are already here, shouldnt be killed thats fucked up.
    
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  - mischieflover
    
    5 years ago
    
    oh trust i hate extremists on either end of a spectrum of a topic. like i still eat meat, doesnt make me horrible or mean i love animals less. things def go too far.
    
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CozmoWank

5 years ago

I wouldn't want to trade places with a tapeworm.

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Anonymous Post Author

5 years ago

I was molested at 4 and abandoned by my mother. I had no way out. You really don’t know my circumstances so don’t pretend to know.

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- NoLifer
  
  5 years ago
  
  You are an idiot if you think its legal to murder and expirement on other humans. Also if you think its regulaur legal practice to eat other humans you are again mistaken. However its legal to do this to animals and its very unregulated how or why. You need a reality check man. Also a lot of animal attacks are becuase people are dumb or camping where there is wildlife and not cleaning up there trash. Most wildlife doesn't want to deal with humans. Ive been camping and disturbed highly deadly creatures by accident. They don't care about people, a lot of times they run and want to be left in peace. I dont see how you can say a life where you are breed for food, torture and painful expirements is the same as having laws banning harm to your living species. Also if you claim humans are jerks to each other why fight for peoples rights anyways?
  
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  - Anonymous Post Author
    
    5 years ago
    
    I fight because there still are innocent people, like children.
    And if done humanely, farming animals for meat is not wrong.
    You can’t just assume that because someone got attacked by a wild animal it’s their fault. Very heartless actually. I met a guy that was attacked by a bear and he did nothing to provoke it. It didn’t have any cubs and he was just walking on a hiking trail.
    And the physical and psychological effects left by such attacks are horrific. What if you got attacked? How would you feel if everyone automatically took the bear’s side?
    That being said, a sizable number of attacks are actually by domestic animals like dogs.
    
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    - NoLifer
      
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      So you are lying when you say animals have it better. You dont farm humans and thats all there is to it. Also being someone who has to deal with wildlife regularly, we are tuaght safety procedures when dealing with animals. Most cases people will bother or attract wildlife. However someone like you probobly have not beem taught proper safety and so assume 100 percent if cases are animals being agressive.
      
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      - Anonymous Post Author
        
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        I rehabilitate wildlife actually. I’m working towards actually getting my license for it. Nice try tho. I’m not saying it’s always the animal’s fault. Most of the time it’s just people being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But there have been cases in which wild animals have attacked unprovoked. That’s just a fact. They’re wild animals.
        
        “You don’t farm humans”. What is human trafficking then? I’d rather be cow that gets raised on a family farm and later humanely slaughtered than a woman or child abducted and sold into slavery.
        
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Anonymous Post Author

5 years ago

Yeah. Not all people can defend themselves though. Children get it worse then animals often times.
I guess I’m kind of bias because I’ve had so many bad things happen to me and I’ve never gotten justice for them, but meanwhile most animals get to run free happily.

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Alichael

5 years ago

Most people don't get bothered by seeing people killed in movies or tv shows because they know that it's acting and not real. But, many people I'm sure aren't comfortable with seeing another human being getting killed for real.

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lordofopinions

5 years ago

Eating a live octopus. What a sick thing to do. If you think that is anywhere near normal you need serious help.

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- Alichael
  
  5 years ago
  
  I've eaten octopus before, but not alive, it's a Chinese delecasy. I don't think I could eat any animal alive. But most carnivore animals do, they can stomach things most humans can't.
  
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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  5 years ago
  
  I didn’t say it was normal. But it’s not the worst thing on the planet and doesn’t mean the person who did it deserves to die.
  
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Hello_Me_Again

5 years ago

I agree to a point, but if your afraid of going outside for fear of being murdered then your not thinking straight or have some weird phobia

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
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  Not really. Multiple people have been killed in my area and houses broken into.
  
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