#still thinking about thay guy who hit himself with a jockey’s whip

[bidilfs]

it’s so so so hard to restrain myself from being some “well actually” dickhead on like 90% of animal posts on the internet. nobody knows the animal in that viral post died a few days later. the thing that everyone was cooing over was probably what killed it.

positing animals as objectively “better” than others or gleefully poking fun at “useless” ones shows a fundamental misunderstanding of evolution and harms your ability to understand ecosystems and conservation. so does getting offended on the behalf of an animal being called “primitive” and protesting it by taking a human-level “everyone is equal” approach to evolution.

there’s a variety of different flavors of people approaching science from an emotionally skewed perspective, usually with at least a dash of anthropomorphism and they all suck

#animal death mention ///// #sorry i saw a post that wasn’t worded perfectly and got mad lol #like yes evolution is not a refined arms race an animal isn’t somehow doing a bad job of evolving #but also primitive (while possibly misused) is not an insult #getting offended on the animal’s behalf is just as bad yknow it’s the same shit in a different direction #anthropomorphism & a skewed perspective aren’t better just bc ur approaching it from a more sympathetic background #anyway out of all the people that do this the ‘well i do/don’t like that so i assume that animal would feel the same’ are the absolute worst #still thinking about thay guy who hit himself with a jockey’s whip #and since it was really painful for him it must!!! also be really painful for the horse #that animal weighs 10x as much as you #deciding now all massages are torture because the amount of force used on a human could seriously injure a cat #i see no reason why these things would he any different #also i’m not saying whipping horses is Great or whatever but like. we should not throw objectivity out the window #just bc this time it benefits ‘our side’ to do so. yknow.