Humans are just the most effective. Humans show pity, while some do not the vast majority do. So you can't say ruthless. Every other predator is far more ruthless than humans. You're just food to them and they don't care. Humans think about what they're doing morally. Lions don't. Can't say cruel either, because we don't want to cause the animals we eat pain. We try to make it quick so as not to make them suffer. Other predators kill and only want it to be a quick kill so they don't have to work more than they have to. That's why they go for the slowest, easiest prey. No regard to the pain it feels. Humans are the most destructive tho in terms of capability, which again falls back on being the most effective. We're capable of more damage. But we weigh pros and cons, right and wrong. It's all a factor. For other animals it's a matter of, am I hungry? Yes or no? Emotions, empathy, compassion. None of that crosses their mind when it comes to the kill. That's why bears eat other bears. Mother bears eat their own bear cubs. Lions will eat their own children if not for the momma protecting them that has oxytocin which makes her far more attached to them.
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Yes. It's proven. Many times, millions of times.
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Yes but no.
Humans have the choice of morals. Killing animals, killing other humans...
The rule of Nature is to kill only to prevent starvation or to defend oneself.
Humans have the choice to choose "Should I kill this person for cheating... lying... stealing... b/c I hate them... etc?"
Animals kill because "i'm hungry" or "My offspring/myself is about to be attacked by this predator." Animals do not have anything but those 2 reasons to kill. (Sharks accidentally kill humans because they think they're [the humans] are food.)
Humans make up/find excuses the kill other humans. (While I am a omnivore I do not like hunting for fun). I don't personally hunting (besides for population control) but I do go fishing, and when I do I always release them. There are other humans though who will kill animals outside of hunting season or just for a trophy.
So while we have these choices between morals and animals do not, we are not the most ruthless. But humans can also choose to be immoral, so we are the most ruthless.
I hope this makes any sort of sense.
8 out of 10 times I'd pick animals over people. Us humans have (and is still to his day) destroyed so much of nature and our planet. We need to step up and take better care of mother nature, animals and our fellow humans. Too often we're greedy and self-destructive in our actions
Actually, most humans care about life and the environment. The problem is in our system of trusting and following our leaders blindly. Most of our political leaders that are responsible for the destruction we see are actually corrupt sociopaths deeply involved in organized crime syndicates that cover the entire globe.
If we want to save the planet we better see through the lies and vote for better leaders.
@Homebakedcookies yeah preach
No. Humans are too nice/empathetic.
Reptilian humans, demons and hybrid non-humans are pure evil. Too bad most people are ignorant of their existence.
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Absolutely.
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Humans can be pretty bad, but there are plenty of examples of animals killing for sport, including their own species. There are also lots of examples of humans not hurting each other, but we never hear about that. Instead we only focus on the bad. I don't think humans are more ruthless or cruel than animals, we are just better at it getting what we want, because we can plan, and plot and organize better than animals, as well as create massive forms of media that allow us to hear about every bad thing, every single person does.
No animal is cruel, they do what they have to do to survive. Humans are the ones torturing and killing millions just for the sport of it.
@ShaeNielson "You have never seen a cat playing with a mouse for sport? They will torture and kill smaller animals even when the cat has plenty of food and doesn't want to eat the mouse. To a lot of animals torture is just great fun.
Dolphins have been seen torturing and killing porpoises for no other reason than the males were sexually frustrated and decided to take it out on an innocent creature.
Monkeys have event been known to kill and castrate humans out of jealousy for the human giving attention to a different monkey. Animals are more of a slave to their emotions than humans are. They don't use higher logic and reasoning to decide not to give into their emotions.
Other animals have been known to kill out of anger as well, and not out of necessity. I can give a free pass to sharks that only reproduce through rape, since that is a part of their survival. However other animals that aren't suppose to reproduce through rape, often end up raping as well.
That is nothing compared to what humans have done.
@ShaeNielson At least humans don't instinctively try to eat our young the way many animals do. People want to give animal a free pass on what they do because it is their natural behavior, yet if a human does the exact same thing even if it is because it is our natural behavior suddenly it is proof of how evil we are.
The fact we hold humans to a higher standard is proof that human's as a whole aren't that bad. For all the humans that kill, rape, or torture, there are far more humans just going about their daily lives the best they can.
Humans are simply animals that have a higher reasoning and logic capabilities. This is what allows us to better judge our actions as either good or evil, instead of always just giving into our nature the way animals do.
Our higher intelligence makes whatever we do way worse than if an animal did it. If mothers eat their young in nature, it's almost always because they or she wouldn't be able to survive, otherwise she'd have defied one of the strongest instincts she has - reproduction.
We rape and kill our children like it's no big deal.
@ShaeNielson "Our higher intelligence makes whatever we do way worse than if an animal did it" This shows you are holding a human to a higher standard. I agree we should be held to a higher standard. However failing to meet that standard doesn't mean that we are worse than an animal.
"We rape and kill our children like it's no big deal." This isn't true at all. Even criminals, which are viewed as the most immoral of people in our society take that very seriously if they find out one of their fellow inmates did something like that.
Generally it's very likely, and Agent Smith was telling this to humans long time ago. :)
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No, lots of other species would be just as destructive, or even worse, if they had the means.
Just to give a few examples:
- dolphins have been observed to try to kill other dolphin's young for some sort of perverse pleasure
- chimpanzees have been observed to go on raiding parties where they kill any chimpanzee from another group that they come across
- foxes and cats torture and kill prey when they're not hungry
There's a lot more examples and I don't have high hopes that an ant colony that manages to conquer the world would be concerned about its environmental impact.
Humans mainly kill for food or territory, the same as many other species. We do it on a wider scale because we have higher numbers and are spread all across the world. There are many animals that are just as destructive (some even more) as humans. But they are generally confined to smaller numbers or limited to certain parts of the world, so they don't seem as destructive.
I think the real issue you have is that humans are developed enough to move past this behaviour and do more to conserve the world we live in.
Unfortunately, getting 7 billion people to change their habits, especially if it means lowering the quality of their life, is going to take generations of teaching new habits.
I'm not saying give up, just don't expect too much too soon.
We are the most destructive, but no more ruthless and cruel than most other animals, the only reason we are so devestating is because we have the means to be.
No other animal can produce weapons or consume oil or decimate forests like we do.
All animals are selfish by nature, we exist to better our own lives and reproduce.
Destructive, yes. The most ruthless and cruel, not sure. The world is ruthless and cruel, it's survival of the fittest. Animals constantly fight over territory, food, mates, to reach the top of the pecking order, just like humans. The only difference is that humans are more intelligent and advanced so we do more damage. Animals can be destructive too if their number aren't controlled - I think the world is over-populated with humans.
Ants have humans beat by miles. There are ants that literally wage war upon and exterminate millions of lives just because they can. There are ants that make slaves of other ants and then kill them and eat them as necessary. There are ants that burrow into other animals just to eat them alive despite having plenty to eat elsewhere. Ants are not defensive little buggers trying to just live peacefully at all. If nothing else to be said humans are nowhere near as fiercely territorial or as bent on conquering as ants are.
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~Sir Terry Pratchett
I think (or possibly hope?) that things can only get better than what they are now. But part of me is glad I won't live forever, because I'm not really sure if I want to take the risk of being around to find out if I'm right :p
We can't live sustainably. The only species ever that can't live in harmony with nature. We're agents of our own destruction. All for the sake of power and greed. I know your thinking thats only the pricks in charge do that but would you be the same if you had their opportunities? I probably would. Thats the sad fact. We're all arseholes
Animals only kill to survive? Really?
Simple example: meerkats have pecking orders. If a lower ranking female meerkat has babies, the queen will kill the babies, and either exile the mother to die alone, or force her to nurse the queen's infants until the lower female dies from the strain.
At least far less than we do.
have you are killed, looted or raped? most people haven't
People aren't dangerous, they are dangerous when they are controlled.
Controlled by destructive ideologies
It just so happens that many of these corrosive ideologies have been programmed into us since childhood
Actually animals kill for fun too. But yeah, to be considered cruel you need some awareness of what you are doing. Bacteria and viruses may be evil, but they are just doing what they do. Same with insects and nematodes - that parasitic worm may be disgusting but it is just keeping it's species going.
Not with Chimpanzees and Baboons on this planet,
We are also not the only animal that kills for fun either,
Another would be the housecat
Doings straight up torture animals, too
So a better choice than animals kill for greed humans kill for greed would be the aliens quote
"I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage."-Ellen Ripley
I disagree. What separates us from the other animals isn't our morality it's our power. More power means more influence, good or bad. A mildly bad king can destroy more than a murderous peasant.
Couldn't agree more!
If anything, we are less violent than our closest genetic relative, the chimp. Male chimps will routinely launch surprise ambushes of members of other tribes with the goal of killing all their offspring so that their own lineage can expand further. Humans do horrible stuff like that too but much less frequently than chimps do, all life on Earth is lucky that we dominate instead of them.
Actually if you count war and genocide we do it much more often.
Chimps don't commit genocide because they lack the sophisticated planning and the technological advantages they would need to do so. They do the next best thing, which is to aggressively target the young and vulnerable. Humans have a much larger population spread out over a much larger area so yes we do have more wars and killing, but if you look at it based on relative populations Chimps are far more cruel. In fact, Jane Goodall was appalled by her studies of a chimp group that split and went to war. She had previously believed chimps to be more peaceful than humans, but found the opposite to be true. One tribe wiped out the other, killing children and cannibalizing their enemy, taking control of their territory until the aggressive and relatively larger chimp group in the next territory over pushed them out.
Maybe some animals are, however, the pygmy chimps rarely exhibit such behavior. Furthermore, tribal peoples also exhibit similar behavior to chimps.
Pretty much, voted A.
"It's in your nature to destroy yourselves."
Humans often can and will sell each other out for their very own personal profit, gain, interest, or even safety.
There is no "Morality" in Nature. Listen to George for some similar thoughts
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Yep. We're the worst. Some are worse than others though.
And monkeys come in close second. Have you seen them kidnapping and killing eachothers kids? It's fucking brutal! You can really tell we're related.
we are the worse species. to borneo a quote from a movie I've seen, mankind should stop reproducing, we should walk hand in hand to extinction.
Yes we are. We have proven time and again we have no problem slaughtering to extinction anything including fellow humans
"Waaaah, I'm a bleeding heart."
Animals torture and kill each other too. Cry me a river.
For the most case because they need to in order to survive.
way to be mature about this -_-
The same goes for most animals (fighting carries an accute risk of injury so it's pointless unless necessary). However unlike other animals we kill animals of others species needlessly.
Chimps, baboons, dolphins, meerkats, sea lions, domesticated cats, whales, some types of bears, birds, and lions will either kill unprovoked or do other transgressive shit to their own and other species.
This goes back to the "bleeding heart" thing, since you're just complaining about how terrible humans are and ignoring, or at least not mentioning, their capacity for good. Humans WILL kill, rape, and torture the same as less advanced species will, and all the softy liberal tears in the world won't stop it. You want it to change? Then take out those committing the evil acts. Bemoaning about the ills of the world on GaG is useless.
But they still don't do it on anywhere near the scale that we do nor has any one species been as destructive as humans are. Sorry, I shouldn't speak in absolutes.
That's probably due more to the limits of their minds than any benevolence they might possess.
As I said, human behavior can't be totally corrected through normal means - when an element in society becomes destructive, it must be put down with an iron fist. There's no point in trying to teach murderers and rapists not to commit crimes - even if you succeed in fixing a few of them, it does nothing to stop the others. Better to make an example out of them, to show any would-be copycats how much they'll suffer if they try the same thing.
Saying that they aren't as bad as us is far from saying that they are benevolent. But murders and rapes are far from the worst thing that we did. We have committed whole scale genocide against are fellow humans, and the cruelty that we exhibited towards each other pales in comparison to what we do to other animals (or what animals do to other animals)
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I mean for crying out loud we're in the midst of the 6th great mass extinction; no single species has ever been as destructive as we have. So if being a bleeding heart means actually giving two shits about how we impact the world that we live and depend on then I'm proud to be a bleeding heart :) <3
Animals, contrary to what a bunch of boneheads would have you believe avoid conflict when possible, far more than humans do completely irrespective of what they can comprehend.
And you really don't think that other predator animals, if they *could* would not farm their prey?
Do you really think if we could "talk to the animals" like Doctor Dolittle and we asked the Serengheti lions they would turn this method down?
Lion: "OK, so you build a fence, trap some gazelles and then feed the gazelles grass, and then whenever you get hungry you just go in and grab one for lunch? And let them mate when you need to have more?
Human: "Yes, just like that."
Lion: "I'm in, if I could build a fence. But since I can't, I guess I'll have to eat you instead..."
Human: "I wouldn't try that." (pulls out gun)
Lion: "Damn..."
Human: "Toolmaking. It's the future."
Lion: "Damn people and their opposable thumbs... thinkin' they're the hot stuff."
Only destruction? Do you know how many skyscrapers there are only in my country? Isn't that creation?
If nature didn't want us here, why did she create us? Why did she give us the intelligence to dominate nature?
i think we are extremely violent and we are arrogant with out believing we are superior
I don't know... i read about a group of dolphins gang raping other dolphins
Yes, this is why I hate humans. Humans treat poor animals cruely and use them for entertainment, food purposes, etc.
You can do yourself a favor and kill yourself then 😂 #Justsayin 😁
For what? Hating humans? Well then, after you! 😂😊 @Other_Tommy_Wiseau
I would kill myself, but I ain't about dat life... I'm too much of a bitch kill myself. Maybe if I grow a pair I'll take you up on that suggestion 😂. I mean you're the one who hates humans. you could do yourself a favor and have 1 less... Or more depending how you go about it 😁
More or less. It's a matter of degree as not all people are the same in this world.
Like it or not there is such a thing as a human and a sub-human in this world.
No dolphin rape other dolphins
That one bird throws other birds baby out of the nest.
Sea lions rape kid sea lions
So no
But they don't commit genocide on one another.
I just said a bird kills a bird over territory.
Amjnals steal other animals homes.
Snake poison and choke out creature til they die. That torture.
So do spiders.
Also human are the only creatues that can act on empathy and sympathy. How many times have u saved a animals that had it leg broken.
Did u give money to Haiti or hurricane Katrina.
People hold the door for people. give money to the homles and less fortunate ( I spelled that wrong I bet)
We cure disease that hurt people we feel bad for disable kids with no army's and as burgers.
We kills yes but all living being kill for survival and evolution. Have u ever tried to go pick up a cats. kittens before she vet angry and attacks.
One of humanity greatest strength is that were are so different and we can evolve. We can think out side of our base primal instinct.
We are not programmed like animal to only be this certain way. We are beautiful old shy smart
Asshole killers angry sad depressed happy joy dumb playful
Last thing human are the most kind creatures on the planet.
Because we do so much for others.
I love humanity for it chaos and order it love and hatred. It similarities and differences.
Its what makes us human
What makes us human is our DNA and yes animals do steal others houses, but they don't do so that often because it isn't evolutionary favorable to be constantly fighting.
Second picture you posted is false.
To name a few: Cats, Killer Whales, Dolphins, Ants, Chimps and Lions kill or have killed for no apparent reason also (though to semi-excuse it Ants and Chimps do go into wars with their respective race.)
On earth, yea, because we have the capacity to know right from wrong yet continue to destroy.
Now I wish I saw that movie!
That is a pretty much indisputable yes.
yup.. and proud of it.
Since they're able to, yes
I think that's an accurate assessment of me, yes.
Yes, we're the worst. We are also the dumbest.
I think so especially in the modern generation.
Unarguably.
Yep they are.
Nah i ain't creature
creature = animal and you are an animal
I'm not a animal, i'm human.
ye that's why we must be destroyed
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