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The “why didn’t you help X animal” comments annoy me to no end

T-Virus

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I'm talking about when wild animals are preying on another animals.

I just saw a TikTok video of shark trying to eat a turtle in the wild and 80% of the comments are blasting the person who took the video for no helping the turtle.

Do they know how nature works?
 
Wispmetas

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Because people love turtles and well...

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Aiii

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I judge a person's character primarily by how they treat animals.

If you have an opportunity to save a living being from death and you don't take it and instead opt to get some TikTok likes, then meh, you deserve to get some shit over it.
 
ElectricBlanketFire

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Aiii said:
I judge a person's character primarily by how they treat animals.

If you have an opportunity to save a living being from death and you don't take it and instead opt to get some TikTok likes, then meh, you deserve to get some shit over it.
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...how exactly would someone prevent a shark from eating a turtle?
 
Replicant

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Nature is nature, but there are some situations where intervention is fine. I would have no issue saving a turtle as long as it put myself in danger
 
Dogo Mojo

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Aiii said:
I judge a person's character primarily by how they treat animals.

If you have an opportunity to save a living being from death and you don't take it and instead opt to get some TikTok likes, then meh, you deserve to get some shit over it.
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If the shark doesn't eat it will also die.
 
Lobster Roll

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Aiii said:
I judge a person's character primarily by how they treat animals.

If you have an opportunity to save a living being from death and you don't take it and instead opt to get some TikTok likes, then meh, you deserve to get some shit over it.
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And by extension you increase the risk of the predator dying by expending valuable calories on a hunt that was ruined by a human who thinks the bunny or whatever is cute.
 
nsilvias

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those people dont realize that he did help. he helped the shark get a meal by flocking off and in return he didnt get mutilated.
 
Nostremitus

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You think anyone helped the shark either??
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If they did we'd have humans fighting and killing each other, half the folks trying to take the shark's food, the other half trying to stop those folks from stealing the shark's food... In the end, let the animals be animals and stop trying to needlessly interfere. It was going to happen whether nature was documented or not.

Would you run out in front of lions to stop them eating a giraffe they had successfully separated from the herd and cornered?
 

Mattersnotnow

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Guy should have presented some vegan options to the shark.
That's why I always carry potatoes and celery when I hike. For bears I mean, not sharks.
 
Lobster Roll

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Aiii said:
If its survival depends on eating this single turtle, it's already dead.
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Lol no offense you but your attitude towards an ecosystem's food chain is genuinely ignorant. Again, that's not an insult. You just don't have the requisite knowledge and that's fine.
 
Pein

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I saw some video of a jaguar drinking water and it looked up at the douches taking the video for a split second, in that second a croc drags it away into the water.

If those fuckers weren't being so noisy that jaguar wouldn't have been caught and I'd be like fair game croc if it caught the cat lacking.
 
Nepenthe

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Interfering with predation between wild animals is nonsense. Predators have to eat too.
 
Kthulhu

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Aiii said:
I judge a person's character primarily by how they treat animals.

If you have an opportunity to save a living being from death and you don't take it and instead opt to get some TikTok likes, then meh, you deserve to get some shit over it.
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How on earth do you consider a human being's life of so little value that it's worth risking to save 1 sea turtle?
 
Karateka

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What if the predator is in no way endangered like a coyote and the prey is super endangered like a puffin or something
 
VariantX

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Those people are clowns. How the fuck would you like someone taking food out of your mouth that you need to live?? And that was something they had to catch themselves, not roll up into a supermarket and buy.
 
Praxis

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Aiii said:
I judge a person's character primarily by how they treat animals.

If you have an opportunity to save a living being from death and you don't take it and instead opt to get some TikTok likes, then meh, you deserve to get some shit over it.
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I love animals, literally wouldn't hurt a fly, but that's nature. You intervening by trying to save the turtle is fucked up, shark has to eat too.
 
WhiteRabbitEXE

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Aiii said:
I judge a person's character primarily by how they treat animals.

If you have an opportunity to save a living being from death and you don't take it and instead opt to get some TikTok likes, then meh, you deserve to get some shit over it.
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But by saving the turtle you're either starving the shark or forcing it to eat something else it otherwise wouldn't have? No matter what, something is dying, you're just changing which.
 
DOBERMAN INC

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Remember the scene in Independence Day with the people trying to welcome and befriend the invading aliens? That's those people.
 

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I just think this is kind of a ...removed take to have. It's like "logically, it's just the food chain, why does it matter?" But like... these are still horrible things to be witnessing so it makes sense people would want to help. I mean we have emotions/feelings we aren't just cold logic.
 
Wackamole

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A lot of people are unable to deal with reality. They want life to be like a Disney movie. They think they can hug an icebear.
There is a difference between being kind to animals and thinking you can impose your human moral rules on animals.

Of course it's never fun to see an animal kill another animal.
 
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Chairman Yang

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Oct 25, 2017
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If the commenters are vegetarian I have some sympathy. Those who aren't--I suspect the vast majority--should be quiet and look to their own hypocrisy.
 
Hektor

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Oct 25, 2017
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Aiii said:
I judge a person's character primarily by how they treat animals.

If you have an opportunity to save a living being from death and you don't take it and instead opt to get some TikTok likes, then meh, you deserve to get some shit over it.
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If you follow this logic through the categorical imperative you would condemn millions of carnivorous animals to death.
 
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