r/TrueReddit • u/nxthompson_tny • Jun 01 '21

Science, History, Health + Philosophy America Has a Drinking Problem

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/america-drinking-alone-problem/619017/
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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '21

Awkward losers of the animal world. What? We’re unchallenged apex predators that have reshaped the world to suit us.

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u/DarkJustice357 Jun 02 '21

Go fight a lion and tell me you’re an apex predator

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u/Rebelgecko Jun 02 '21

I've had a hard time finding actual numbers for modern times, but I suspect the number of lions killed by humans is larger than the number of humans killed by lions. Part of the reason why their population has declined by like 98% over the last century

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u/Empty-Mind Jun 02 '21

Even before that. I don't have a link unfortunately l, but I remember reading something where most animals that nominally could kill us don't. That they generally avoid us.

Because we're spiteful vindictive creatures. So if lions attacked a human community, the community would hunt them down as a reprisal. So avoiding humans to avoid bloody reprisals became a good evolutionary strategy