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goobster  ·  2437 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Shooting in self-defense

    There are no fair fights. Nature demonstrates this daily.

Wild animals in nature demonstrate this.

We are not wild animals in nature. We are evolved beings with self-awareness, empathy, reason, and a concept of justice, living in a highly constructed environment.

The two situations could not be more different.

The only similarity is that we have historical wiring that remembers a time when we lived like animals, and had to have their reactions.

Trying to validate your basest, most selfish instincts by saying basically, "Well, animals do it!", is childish, wilfully obtuse, and utterly lacking in intellectual rigor.