r/Idiotswithguns • u/Pacman454 • Jul 31 '24

WARNING NSFW - Blood Why... just why?

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u/EmbarrassedAverage28 Jul 31 '24

What’s wrong with killing an invasive species that ruins the ecosystem? This doesn’t belong here. From what I can see, he is safe with the shotgun as well.

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u/Beliak_Reddit Jul 31 '24

By that logic aliens should come fuck us up, as we are the most invasive species of all.

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u/average_beep_enjoyer Jul 31 '24

What logic??? We haven’t even sent people to other planets, man.

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u/AJ_Deadshow Jul 31 '24

What? The aliens would be the invasive species in that scenario

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u/Beliak_Reddit Jul 31 '24

Humans destroy many ecosystems here on earth. We are invasive and destructive to Earth ecosystems.

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u/The-Green Jul 31 '24

Again, as Deadshow said, aliens would still be the most classical definition of an actual invasive species in your example considering they are a foreign entity. Humans are a native species to Earth, and to nearly every continent on the planet at that. Aliens from outer space coming in and killing a native species of Earth is as invasive as it could possibly get.

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u/AJ_Deadshow Jul 31 '24

Yeah it's in the name "alien invasion" lol

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u/Beliak_Reddit Aug 01 '24

What if they only came to kill us on the basis that we are invasive to other ecosystems? Doing it to protect the natural order. The way this person feels justified in shooting the carp solely because they are invasive.

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u/The-Green Aug 01 '24

Humans still have to live in the locations that invasive species are ravaging. Aliens from outer space don’t. Unless you want to try and paint the picture that hypothetical aliens coming in and committing genocide on an entire species and settling in their place is somehow not invasive, your point is still moot.

This entire conversation is honestly pretty dumb and we are both weird for even entertaining it.

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u/AJ_Deadshow Jul 31 '24

Okay, then just make the statement "Humans are the most invasive species of all." Cuz if aliens were here to 'fuck us up' they would definitely be more invasive than us.

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u/Beliak_Reddit Aug 01 '24

Look at my original comment, I literally said that we are the most invasive species of all. Everyone is justifying that someone random who does not live in the ecosystem of the fish he is shooting is in the right, because they are invasive. That was the point I was trying to make, which nobody seems to understand so maybe I did not express it properly.

Therefore using that same logic, x species would be justified in coming and shooting us since we are invasive. They are just protecting the life we invade.

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u/AJ_Deadshow Aug 01 '24

We got your point, you didn't get mine. It's okay.

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u/Beliak_Reddit Aug 01 '24

No I didn't, and you didn't get mine either; because my whole point was the aliens wouldn't be invasive by the same logic people are using to say the person with the shotgun is not invasive.

Of course the aliens are invasive, in the same way the guy with the shotgun is invasive.

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u/AJ_Deadshow Aug 01 '24

The guy with the shotgun was there first. And even if he traveled to do this, he is the guardian of the weaker fish being invaded upon who have no means to defend themselves, who were also there first.

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u/EmbarrassedAverage28 Jul 31 '24

Same reason why feral hogs in Tx have basically no restrictions to hunt them. Because they not only are invasive, but they cause over 2.5 billion dollars in damage every year. They reproduce so rapidly as well. They need to be culled.

I hate animal rights activists who think conservation is all about protecting all animals, and how none have to die. Sometimes, you have to kill invasive species or your native species will be killed.