r/BeAmazed • u/Nefarious_14 • Mar 05 '25

Animal A cat's agility through its pov

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u/ForgiveAlways Mar 05 '25

Man, all the animals get these super powers, like venom, agility, speed…. and all I get are these damn emotions that are broken half the time.

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u/Supercoolguy7 Mar 05 '25

Super intelligence and super endurance isn't enough for you?

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u/Salihe6677 Mar 05 '25

I'm pretty sure the model I got assigned didn't get either of those things >_>

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u/MoistStub Mar 05 '25

Well we are no longer part of the food chain which counts for a lot imo. Jumping a bit higher would be dope but I would still rather not get eaten alive.

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u/iamblankenstein Mar 05 '25

being on top of the food chain still puts us on the food chain. we're also only on top of the food chain as a species. as an individual, you can still very much get kicked right off that top of that ladder. go into the wild on your own with no equipment and see how you fare against a polar bear or something. you're definitely still going to be a part of the food chain.

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u/MoistStub Mar 05 '25

Nah, I'd win.

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u/iamblankenstein Mar 05 '25

i like your gumption. that's the spirit that won us dubya dubya two, son.

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u/MoistStub Mar 05 '25

Then I would bang the polar bear's wife to assert dominance.

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u/iamblankenstein Mar 05 '25

polar bears live a pretty bohemian lifestyle. i don't think they usually marry. they lack typically lack the social culture that promotes marriage as an institution. but again, i can't deny that can-do attitude you have going there.

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u/RubixTheRedditor Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25

I mean to be fare our equipment and strategy is our entire niche and why we're on top. Like if I took the claws and teeth off a lion

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u/iamblankenstein Mar 06 '25

right, i'm just pointing out that our tools make us forget that being on top of the food chain is not the same thing being removed from the food chain, as the previous redditor suggested. all you need to be reminded is to go get lost without any tools.

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u/--n- Mar 05 '25

go into the wild on your own with no equipment and see how you fare against a polar bear or something

Or go into the wild with equipment and rule.

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u/iamblankenstein Mar 05 '25

well, i was trying to illustrate the point that a single human on its own is not an apex predator - its us as a group that makes us so successful and dangerous.

but, that said, even going out into the wild with equipment doesn't necessarily ensure you're still at the top of the food chain. plenty of people go out into the bush well equipped and never come home.

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u/--n- Mar 05 '25

And I was pointing out that past achievements of lasting knowledge allow an individual human to beat any single animal in a fight, via the the fruits of the labours of our ancestors, AKA. Guns.

Every other animal could develop guns too, but we are just better, and therefore at the top of the food chain. Even as individuals.

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u/iamblankenstein Mar 05 '25

And I was pointing out that past achievements of lasting knowledge allow an individual human to beat any single animal in a fight, via the the fruits of the labours of our ancestors, AKA. Guns

right, i understand that - that was entirely my point. we require the past achievements and knowledge to be a threat as an individual. most animals don't need any prior knowledge or achievements to maintain their place on the food chain. you strip humans of their tools, and we're suddenly a lot less impressive than we think ourselves to be.

Every other animal could develop guns too

no they can't.

but we are just better,

we're just more successful, we aren't "better" unless you define "better" in this case to be synonymous with "more successful". we're definitely not better in many ways. destroying the environment we rely on makes us quite a bit worse than any other animal.

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u/--n- Mar 05 '25

Every other animal could develop guns too

no they can't.

They have the same opportunity we had. We did it. They don't because they are to stupid. Intelligence is what makes humans superior.

you strip humans of their tools, and we're suddenly a lot less impressive than we think ourselves to be.

Yes, you have to HANDICAP humans to give animals a fighting chance, by stripping humans of advantages that are borne of their abilities.

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u/iamblankenstein Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

They have the same opportunity we had. We did it. They don't because they are to stupid. Intelligence is what makes humans superior.

animals lacking the intelligence, abstract thinking, and dextrous hands necessary to conceptualize and then build them means that they very much don't have the same opportunity.

Intelligence is what makes humans superior.

intelligence makes us successful. not superior. again, our bias towards ourselves make us believe that we're "better" than other animals, but we aren't. we destroy the world around us when it's critical to our own survival.

Yes, you have to HANDICAP humans to give animals a fighting chance, by stripping them of advantages that are borne of their abilities.

no, you have to give a human an advantage by allowing it to access exogenous items to put it on the same threat level that many other animals have natively.

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u/OGThakillerr Mar 06 '25

go into the wild on your own with no equipment and see how you fare against a polar bear or something

I get your point, but these aren't considerations in the food chain. It's like telling a lion to go out in the wild without claws, or a shark to prowl the oceans without teeth. Extreme hypotheticals aren't a factor.

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u/iamblankenstein Mar 06 '25

it's really not an extreme hypothetical, people get lost in the wild with no equipment all the time.