Othawa Pride

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(09-29-2022, 01:15 AM)Duco Ndona Wrote: Normally we bury those animals with adoration. We call them legends, kings. They are wise animals, good fathers, brave protectors and so on and so on. 
We adore these animals because we appreciate nature. They are still just animals doing animal stuff, calling a lion brave or a good father is just us enforcing human ideals on them. It's wrong to criticize a wild animal for behaving the way they evolved to, especially since they do not possess the same kind of emotional intelligence or morality as us to know any better. 
But the minute something scatters that view. Its suddenly animals doing animal stuff and we shouldn't project attributes on them like that. 

We adore these animals because we appreciate nature. They are still just animals doing animal stuff, calling a lion brave or a good father is just us enforcing human ideals on them. It's wrong to criticize a wild animal for behaving the way they evolved to, especially since they do not possess the same kind of emotional intelligence or morality as us to know any better. 

(09-29-2022, 01:15 AM)Duco Ndona Wrote: All I am saying is that we either should do neither. Or be fair and do both. If there are kings, there are butchers. 
Otherwise we risk telling a very one sided story.

Calling a lion king doesn't necessarily mean they are brave or good fathers or have any such 'positive' attributes. Kings have done some terrible things in human history and being called king isn't necessarily a compliment either, we remember them as power hungry rulers who abused their people and their power. Being called a king in the lion world just means they have a territory, they fought other lions and took their territory or 'throne'. Calling a lion a butcher is just wrong and unnecessary, it implies a level of malicious intent only a human is capable of. And I don't buy this dichotomy that if we call lions king we should also call them butchers, lions work on instinct and anthropomorphizing them by placing intent on their behavior is wrong, be it positive or negative. Reply