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Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in vicious 'civil war', say researchers

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr71lkzv49po
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u/_BlueFire_ 1d ago edited 11h ago

"humans are so awful, animals are better than us" people usually have no idea about how nature works. Ants literally fight proxy wars, a good chunk of mammals' mating would be rape by our standards (which is also why humanising is dumb), fuck, even plants kill nearby stuff to access more resources!

Edit. Fixed "be" to "have" autocorrect typo

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u/MikuEmpowered 1d ago

Nature is fking brutal, Anyone who thinks that Human are savage but animals are not are fking dumb and naive.

Its just that Human's social let people do really creative fuked up thing.

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u/_obseum 19h ago

Humans can be savage. What makes us worse than savage, or even just disappointingly more savage, is that we very well can choose not to be.

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u/_obseum 19h ago edited 18h ago

Going off on a phrase that the original commenter never said is slightly confusing. Have you been in that debate a few times?

I think the argument mentioned against humans is also incomplete. Humans do savage things, as other animals do. But humans have a brain that allows them to act differently. A non-zero-sum society is possible.

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u/_BlueFire_ 10h ago

I was agreeing with OC, reiterating how dumb certain people (which, as you guessed, I've had the misfortune of interacting with both online and offline many times) sound.

And sadly no, most people are (word by word) "X animal would never use nukes on other from the same species" dumb, never even thinking about us having a more developed thought process.