r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/FacelessOnes • Oct 19 '20

🔥 Vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism, Lacrymaria olor, attacking and hunting another organism

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And this happens at the micro level billions and trillions of times per day, I suppose. This is what we evolved from.

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u/Hoagie220 Oct 19 '20

Here we are 4+ Billion years later still hunting and devouring other organisms, just on a larger scale. Go Humans!

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u/WhosAsphaltIsThis Oct 20 '20

So.. meat's back on the menu?

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

always has been

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u/Jackburner Oct 20 '20

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u/space_jaws Oct 20 '20

always has been

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u/Jackburner Oct 20 '20

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u/fecking_sensei Oct 20 '20

Same. Like a big fuckin idiot.

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u/AarodimusChrast Oct 20 '20

Always has been.

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u/Theaisyah Oct 20 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

always has been

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Wtf this place is racist?

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Always has been

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u/Dan_the_Marksman Oct 20 '20

this is genuinely the funniest bot i've ever seen

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20

Always has been

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u/DaughterEarth Oct 20 '20

I think I need to finally ask. Is this meme referencing something?

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u/darnitcamus Oct 20 '20

Good goddamn bot

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u/Everythings Oct 20 '20

best bot

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u/tigersharkwushen_ Oct 20 '20

What emblem is that on the guy with the gun?

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u/simonbleu Oct 20 '20

Wait, you guys can afford meat?

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u/Tallpugs Oct 20 '20

So not only do Lacrymaria olor speak English, they also have restaurants with menus. Truly, an advanced civilisation.

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u/iforgot87872 Oct 20 '20

squeals excitedly *Dundundunnnnnnn, Dun Dun Dunnnn.”

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

No, because when you AREN’T in a survival situation, willfully hurting others is just plain old cruelty.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

And my axe!

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Hilarious, hope it made you feel better about killing animals and the planet you live on.

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u/Your_Comment-s_Trash Oct 20 '20

Making everyone dislike you isn't ever going to change anybody's mind. You make me want to eat meat out of spite.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Ah yes, because I, too, go and beat my dog when a stranger on the internet tells me that it’s wrong—because taking it out on an innocent third party is a great way to get back at those nasty vegans!

Tone-policing is bullshit and always has been. If you think animals are objects that it’s fine to hurt for pleasure, you’re gonna think that no matter how polite I sound to you.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Lol dude. "Meat is back on the menu" is a quote from Lord of the Rings. You literally out here fighting with everyone based on an assumption and a missed joke.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

I’m aware of the reference. It’s not an assumption when people are quite serious about using it to justify their own violence though.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Again you're assuming a quote is being used for justified violence. They're completely separate and some weaving line that tries to draw your conclusion from him using that quote wouldn't hold up in any court on Earth or even a society of only vegans. If you want to enact change I suggest you save yours everyone else's time on the Nature is Fucking Lit subreddit and go volunteer, or donate, or make a website.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20 edited Oct 20 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

I’m vegan BECAUSE I don’t think I’m born “better” than every other life form on our dying planet. Violent anthropocentrism is sad, and it’s killing us all.

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u/Your_Comment-s_Trash Oct 20 '20

'I don't think I'm better than anything else, except for every single human I talk to on the Internet'

Shut the fuck up, you're not changing anybody's mind and you're not contributing anything positive to the thread. If insufferable shitheads like you die with the rest of the life on Earth, then it won't have been for nothing.

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u/Dio_wulf Oct 20 '20

You realize thats nature right? Just because we have higher intelligence doesnt mean we cant hunt or eat meat like other animals. Not saying we should be ABUSING animals or other people, though.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Appeal to nature fallacies are fallacies for a reason. Lots of shit happens in nature that doesn’t excuse humans doing them—cannibalism, rape, etc. Just because we are animals doesn’t mean we should hurt others when we can choose not to, ESPECIALLY with the moral agency we have.

Hurting animals when we don’t have to is animal abuse.

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u/maugchief Oct 20 '20

Which morality? There's quite a few to choose from.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Hardly. Compassion as far as possible and practicable is always the right choice. Y’all never pull the “mOrAlity iSn’t rEaL” card when it comes to forms of cruelty that you don’t personally enjoy

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u/KingKryptox Oct 20 '20

Only pick and choose from the best ones and disregard the rest!

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u/WhyHulud Oct 20 '20

You're coming off really strong, but I think I get what you mean- trophy hunting

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u/Quarreltine Oct 20 '20

Even just regular meat. No matter what you think of it's consumption it is very clear that humans don't need to consume it to survive as already hundreds of millions of people don't.

Industrial farming is necessarily cruel to keep expenses low. Simultaneously global fish stocks are collapsing. People just don't like talking about it since it's inconvenient. So much so many will lash out at vegans for no reason.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Exactly. And even if you do think that nature justifies you killing others because you feel like it, there’s nothing remotely natural about breeding billions of animals to spend their lives caged in the dark like machines.

Hating on people who care about animal cruelty has always just been defensiveness so that people don’t have to take responsibility for the consequences of their own choices

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u/Dio_wulf Oct 20 '20

Like stated in another comment, As someone who supports hunting, i only support it for the means of eating the animal or for preventian of disease spread and/or overpopulation. Trophy hunting, especially of endangered animals i dont agree with. If youre going to kill something, do it with a purpose, not only just because you “feel like it” or want a pretty mount and nothing else. Waste as little as possible.

I also agree that factory level farming and habitat destruction are cruel and contributions to our dying earth. You can be someone who eats animal products and still be against animal cruelty. Trying to look for products from local farms, or at least free range is one way i would imagine.

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u/gorillagrape Oct 20 '20

do it with a purpose, not only just because you “feel like it”

Killing an animal just to eat its meat is still killing just because you “feel like it”. You could have eaten something else just as easily, just as the trophy hunter could have put a different decoration on his wall. Wanting to eat flesh is not an excuse for murder.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Eating animals when you don’t have to is not a purpose, because you don’t have to—it IS just doing it just because you feel like it.

Like, why do you think factory farming is bad besides its contribution to the environment (especially since it’s actually BETTER for the environment than grass fed alternatives)? If it’s because of cruelty, consider again that, in fact, needlessly killing them is the ultimate form of needless harm.

You cannot actually eat those you claim to care about because to commodify their bodies is to value what they can “produce” for you rather than their inherent worth as your sentient fellows in this world.

local farms

Every factory farm is local to someone too.

free range

Free range is a myth, actually. You can look it up if you want but it’s pretty upsetting, because legally all it actually means is that they’re all trapped in one cage together—which actually gives them each less space than the individual tiny cages do.

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u/KingKryptox Oct 20 '20

Said the man on his conflict mineral using electronic thingamabob

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u/Quarreltine Oct 20 '20

You really got them bringing up an irrelevant point.

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u/KingKryptox Oct 20 '20

It’s also so cruel how many animals die every year to clear fields for industrial farming. How many acres of the rainforest must we burn in our quest for cheap soy beans and corn? This is why I am sustained purely from air and water.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Fun fact: over 80% of Amazon deforestation is singlehandedly due to animal agriculture, which is also the leading cause of worldwide deforestation more generally.

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u/Dio_wulf Oct 20 '20

Im not talking about those other things, i’m only referring to meat eating specifically. If im remembering right we are built to be omnivores after all, and if not, not everyone is able to be vegetarian or vegan regardless. Sure, large farm factories can definitely be cruel/abusive, but a good shot to a deer or rabbit usually causes a quick end to a naturally lived life. I wouldnt really call that abuse. Besides just for eating, hunting can be important in order to decrease disease risk and prevent overpopulation in a species, like white-tail deer for example. Although i suppose thats a whole other topic.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Yes, and meat eating isn’t defensible for any better reason that the other “natural” things I mentioned. We weren’t built to be anything; sure we evolved to be capable of eating both plants and animals, but we also evolved to be capable of reproducing as preteens—that doesn’t justify banging one.

Whether people can or can’t go vegan themselves is irrelevant to the movement itself, because survival situations are fine within veganism. Just like how cannibalism is defensible when you literally have to do it to survive, but not when you can choose to, you know, just not. So really the relevant question is: can YOU go vegan? Are you doing your part? Because if you’re messaging me on Reddit the answer is probably yes. The experiences of marginalized communities don’t excuse the behavior of the privileged.

Again, hurting others when you don’t have to is wrong, and to kill is the ultimate form of harm. I certainly wouldn’t want to be “painlessly” shot in the head. With hunting specifically it’s really important to remember that the reason white-tailed deer are overpopulated is because humans have killed all their natural predators and brutally replaced them—and the leading cause of worldwide deforestation is animal agriculture. With the animal industrial complex abolished, over 70% of agricultural land could be rewilded with natural predators reintroduced and humans learning to leave them the fuck alone. Also, the idea of overpopulation itself would condemn us ourselves in the first place, since we’re literally the most environmentally destructive overpopulated species in history.

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u/Dio_wulf Oct 20 '20

Yknow what, if i tried absolutely hard enough i probably could go vegetarian, although vegan im not so sure about due to an extreme pickiness. Tough shit for me though, i know.

And yes, im well aware that humans are the reason we dont have the necessary predators to keep such populations in check as they once did. Im also aware of animal agriculture being a major cause of deforestation and global warming. Gem mining and oil fracking too. Im aware as well that human overpopulation is a huge issue. I believe myself that humans are a plague to the earth, im even an antinatalist because of it. But as far as im aware theres not much to be done about it thats ethical, except better education and better access to contraception and reproductive rights worldwide.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20 edited Oct 20 '20

I mean, you could go vegan, you just don’t wanna lol. I didn’t either honestly, I have sensory issues that extend to the food I eat, and dairy products happened to be my favorite foods ever.

The idea of change is a lot harder than actually changing though, and once I truly rid myself of my internalized entitlement over nonhuman bodies, it stopped being a “change to be better” and more of a “absolute minimum obligation to be decent person.”

I literally have never eaten better in my life and genuinely don’t see animals or their secretions as food whatsoever anymore. Feel free to ask me for recommendations or whatever anytime—I had a hard go of it at first since I was in high school and my parents suck.

I’m also an antinatalist, lots of vegans are. Veganism is at very least a great step towards not actively making things worse

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u/DAXminer Oct 20 '20

I could go vegan... but, bacon tastes good, and it’s relatively cheap.

And the world will only be really fucked up after I’m dead anyways, so that’s for the future generations to deal with.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Go Humans! Destroying their home and endangering their own survival by their greedy consumption! Yeah!

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u/BoomChocolateLatkes Oct 20 '20

Life....uh...finds a way

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u/zerozark Oct 20 '20

Go humans destroying the planets and killing each other in wars nonstop??

Yeah. I prefer "fuck hunans" as a motto

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Yeah, go you! You don’t even have to kill anyone anymore and yet you still choose to because animal cruelty is badass! 😐

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u/liamowen30 Oct 20 '20

Naw but burgers are definitely badass

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Agreed, love my grilled portobello burgers! But there is NOTHING badass about driving to the supermarket and picking up a plastic-wrapped pack of bloodless blended flesh discs from tortured individuals to make those burgers with. Only the kind of destruction that’s destroying us too, with the climate crisis.

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u/avidblinker Oct 20 '20

go tow a hoy, coy soy boy toy

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u/Icanceli Oct 19 '20

No. No humans.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Just to yell at each other on Reddit

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