• TimeNaan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    AFAIK cats cats play with their prey not for fun but in order to tire it out.

    I think that cruelty and sadism are human inventions and we inflict them on animals on an industrial scale. I believe this comes from hierarchy and domination present in our society, not from instinct.

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      1 year ago

      Don’t read up on dolphins or seals then. Cruelty and sadism exist in other animals. Humans are just better at it.

      I mean lions don’t have an instinct to control and dominate a herd… Wait.

      And cats very often don’t eat their prey, they like humans lol for the “fun”…