Guybrush

I expect The Virgin not to understand the point that no animal's purpose is to be eaten by a different species of animals (which is why they are poisonous, fight, hide, run away, are sometimes protected by spikes or shells and generally try to protect themselves from predators as best they can), but there are still some strange ideas running around this thread.

First of all, animals are not by default lower than us as in worse designed or inferior to us on some cosmic scale. We have to decide what we want to rank before we can decide what animals are lower than us. A bird may have more efficient lungs than we do and better eyesight too. Intelligence is not the only thing worth having.

Second, people need to learn what breeding means. There are animals we eat. Many of them we've bred them for thousands of years to be as docile as possible so that we can kill and eat them with the least possible amount of effort, but these animals friendly behaviour is no longer natural. It's a consequence of selective breeding, not natural selection.

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