Killing off wild predators is a stupid idea

I blame Disney.

Eliminating predators is a terrible idea from a purely ecological perspective, but in the long-term, humanity's eventually going to have the power to limit or eliminate natural animal suffering without fucking the planet we live on. And when that time comes, I sure as Hell hope that our species will have the guts to actually do it, preferably with some kind of mind uploading type of solution.

But yeah, they're wrong from a practical perspective but they're kinda right from a pure morality angle. I've watched a ton of videos of animals getting eaten alive, and while the obligate carnivore isn't at fault for obvious reasons, I'd do anything to avoid that kind of fate for myself. Nature is a tremendously evil machine based on bloodshed and suffering, and humans are more than willing to recognize this reality when it's our own necks on the chopping block; there are very few people who say we should abandon medical science or agriculture to return to the natural order.

Not any collection of vegans or activist group. Two authors.

Amanda MacAskill and William MacAskill, are — respectively — a philosophy Ph.D. student at New York University and an associate professor of philosophy at Lincoln College, part of Oxford University.

Two people hardly a quorum make.

An indoctrinated mind, is a terrible thing to waste!

These damaged minds are now effecting the lives of others.

It’s all about forcing others into their own belief systems.

They are obsessed with how others want to live their lives.

Their collective, wants to suppress freedom as a means to their ends.

If thta's they want, I wonder why or how those "some" are so ignorant of basic biology.

They would seem not to have progressed beyond the Infants' School classroom nature-table, but be determined to convert everyone else to their own level of ignorance.

Kill the predators and the prey will multiply beyond the ability of their environment to support them.

Few things surpass the arrogance of humans. Or the stupidity.

Add this to the 10 stupidest list!

Tjats kinda stupid and hipocritical.

Wow, people never cease to amaze me 😂

Yeah well there's a sizable number of tranhumanists/abolitionist who think it is a moral imperative we use genetic engineering to create viruses to reprogram humans and predators to become herbivores. Not all, but it's a commonly discussed and fairly widespread concept amongst that community.