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No, I like the idea in Mark Twain's "The Lowest Animal". It says that man is the only cruel animal. Birds may attack each other or eat their young, but they most likely do this simply to survive. Unlike humans, we fight over land and other stupid things rarely for survival. In order to be cruel don't you first need to understand what cruel is? Does a bird understand the concept of cruel?
ReplyDeleteGood call, Robert. Here's a quote from that essay:
ReplyDelete"Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity- these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them."
Good question, also. I wouldn't say that a bird needed to understand a concept to practice the concept. Otherwise most of us would no longer be able to digest our food. Or are yopu saying there are some ideas that must be consciously understood to exist?
i wouldnt say that birds are the cruelest animals. i mean there are other animals that do the same thing and others leave their young on their own. its just the animals instinct and also survival of the fittest may have some kind of effect.
ReplyDeleteI don't really think that they are the cruelest out of all creatures. That is just in there nature. How much is enough for something to be cruel is just an opinion. Humans have a tendency to make mistakes, kill, commit suicide, and much more. Some of us don't feel any remorse some do but what is done is done. For the people that commit all these sins they all have their own opinion about what is cruel.
ReplyDeleteLet us compare the concept of cruelty with digeting food, or breathing, or our heart beat. We must breath to survive. It is an involitary action, and so is breathing. Digesting food some people find ways around it, but it is essential for survival. This is the way our body gets energy. I would not call these concepts, but rather facts of existance. They have been gained though millions of years of evolution. We do not need to understand them because they are controlled by a part of the brain that we have no conscience control of. Now, we look at the concept of cruelty. What is cruelty? Can it be defined? Some may say cruelty is doing someone else wrong. Let's go to World War II. You look at all the Jews being mistreated and kill, and you say that is cruel. The Jews look at the way they are being mistreated and kill, and they say that this is cruel. The germans look at the way they are mistreating and kill the Jews, and they beleive it is necassary or that it is the right thing to do. The birds look at the way the Germans are exterminating the Jews, and the birds think today is another day. The birds are simply living to survive the day. What happened to the Jews did not affect them. They did not see it as cruel like the human world did. Now, even the Germans have come to realize that their actions were inappropriate and cruel. Cruelty is a concept that must be understood inorder to be implemented. Shame, revenge, greed these are all concepts that animals are unable to grasp. It is only the humans who understand, and dispite our understanding, we still continue to be creul, and greedy, and vengeful. It is only us. How can we even compare ourselves to them? The traits that define us cannot be used to define them, for they are the higher animals. And we... we are the lowest animal.
ReplyDeleteStellar...but it does bring up a question. Are we the only animal capable of love? We often do things against our best interest in the interest of those we love...although evolutionary biologists would say that even that is out of some natural urge to protect. And there are examples of animals giving their lives for other animals or even for humans. But the question is this, since we seem to be capable of love more than other animals (maybe you don't agree with that) does that make humans somehow less low?
ReplyDeletei dont believe so. there are animals that do the same thing in order to survive. and most animals are bigger and are able to attack humans.
ReplyDeletei disagree dogs also do the same to their young birds are just very teritorial. just as humans are although most humans dont kill their young but they hit them and punish them.
ReplyDeleteI've never looked at birds as being cruel. I know some attack but I've never had a bad experience with birds. Some dogs eat their young and attack people. I am more afraid of dogs than i am of birds.
ReplyDeleteno not the cruelest... male lions sometimes when they take over a heard they eat the cubs from the other male lion they defeated to start their own family..
ReplyDeleteBirds are not cruel.. they just do what they have to do to survive.
ReplyDeletebirds are not rational beings therefor they aren't the cruelest animals. humans and other animals with that rational thought should be on that list
ReplyDeletei dont think that birds are the crulest animals...other animals do as they do...its the circle of life...
ReplyDeleteAnimals are not cruel. Humans are the most cruel. Animals act upon instict kind of like us humans. the difference is that when an animal takes the life of another animal they do not know they are sinning. We do.
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree with Rebecca. Humans have to be the most cruel. Think about what just recently happened in Bakersfield with the guy who ate his kids eyes and chopped off his own legs.
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