r/animalsdoingstuff • u/cdbmeme • 27d ago

Funny Octopus retaliation

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u/iamtheyeeter 27d ago

this genuinely pisses me off, that poor thing tried to get away and it was obvious. i'm sure anyone would retaliate if someone prodded and grabbed them repeatedly, too. why do people not treat animals with proper respect?

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u/deltharik 27d ago

I really hope that one day humans treat animals with hell more respect.

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u/ZealousidealPage7358 27d ago

I've found a majority of humans don't treat other humans with respect. Animals have no chance unfortunately...

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u/Smallbunsenpai 24d ago

I know so many people who view animals as objects and living things that can feel. It’s so sad. It’s so upsetting.

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u/BiggumsTimbleton 27d ago

I think realistically we'd have to start caring about each other first before that's plausible.

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u/Fear_Jaire 27d ago

I feel the same way and the realized I'm eating meat lol

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u/Ready_Bandicoot1567 27d ago

Yea what he's doing here is without question the most ethical way to source seafood. If you buy seafood or meat at the market, you don't have much ground to stand on to criticize this guy. Spearfishing is totally normal and its easily the most ecologically responsible way to get seafood.

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u/shrimpseeker 27d ago

Ehhh, i think most people in this comment section (including myself) are against eating octopus period, theyre just too smart

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u/Ready_Bandicoot1567 27d ago

Thats a fair critique. Personally I don't think they are any smarter than a pig and my freezer is full of wild pork that I hunted myself.

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u/effortDee 27d ago

Its less damaging to the environment but still unethical because you don't have to eat octopus and it's not ecologically responsible by taking away biodiversity from the ocean.

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u/jamieh800 27d ago

While you're right in THIS instance, I'd like to point out that hunting/spearfishing can absolutely be ecologically responsible and help maintain biodiversity. An example would be lionfish. Lionfish are an invasive species where I am and have no natural predators. They outcompete native species and reduce biodiversity across the board as a result. So killing lionfish is a good thing around here.

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u/Smallbunsenpai 24d ago

Lion fish is totally different, any invasive animal is tbh. There are so many here in Florida.

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u/Ready_Bandicoot1567 27d ago

I believe meat consumption is ethical, so I think we agree to disagree. About 90% of my meat consumption is animals that I or a member of my family personally hunted, fished, or raised in an ethical way.

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u/KououinHyouma 24d ago

So 10% of the time it’s from an unvetted source? It’s not ethical to do something immoral just because you only do it 1 in 10 times.

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u/Ready_Bandicoot1567 24d ago

I eat meat at restaurants and I’ll eat what I’m served at peoples houses. My household is 100% meat that I hunted or raised myself. I do not buy meat at the market.

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u/sparkster185 27d ago

then stop. it's pretty easy.

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u/Matthew-_-Black 27d ago

Then you don't feel the same way

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u/Fear_Jaire 27d ago

Meant to say "felt" but yeah that was my point

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u/Matthew-_-Black 27d ago

Do you feel differently now?

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u/Opposite-Fall-9868 27d ago

You show me a happy and actually healthy looking vegan and ill think about it lol

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u/Matthew-_-Black 27d ago

I don't know what that has to do with the other person's hypocrisy or mental dissonance

I'm coming up on a decade of not consuming animal flesh or secretions

Not only am I happy, I'm also healthy and not just healthy looking

I'm also a better cook, and eat better than most at a fraction of the price

My weight is more stable, plus, no chronic illnesses, deficiencies or cravings for animal flesh!

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u/Emotional_Burden 27d ago

You sound like my sister. It works for her and she has been way more healthy and happy. And the food she makes is delicious and cheap.

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u/Upset_Philosopher_16 27d ago

Calling it animal flesh instead of the proper term "meat" is part of why you wont convince anyone. No one gives a fuck even if you stopped eating meat it would change nothing, at most one piece of meat would be thrown away because it expired, nice waste.

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u/Matthew-_-Black 27d ago edited 27d ago

I also call milk animal secretions because it fucking disgusts me how so many of you act like baby parasites drinking abused cows milk originally produced for the calves they have, who are then slaughtered because people like the taste of baby

Why would I try to convince you? All I get is immediate aggression for merely stating a different opinion on what you consider a norm.

You skipped over all the health benefits I mentioned. Why is that?

Fortunately, I'm not the only person who cares about the impact they have on the planet. I don't think the majority will change until they have no other option besides total collapse, but I have my own personal morals and I could just as easily say the efforts of your life have amounted, and will amount to nothing

Anyway, I'm gonna go eat some chickpea vegetable soup.

Aren't I extreme?

Have a nice day.

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u/Flower-1234 27d ago

Are you aware of supply & demand? :/

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u/Separate_Ad4197 27d ago

Flesh is the most accurate word. Considering the avg American eats 23 chickens per year I’d say it makes a great deal of difference. Supply and demand. Tyson will lower their production targets by 23 chickens for every American that stops eating chicken. That’s 23 less chickens born into a hellscape and sent to a slaughterhouse. You also provide financial supportive for the scaling and development of plant based alternatives by spending your money elsewhere.

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u/Smallbunsenpai 24d ago

You don’t know how supply and demand works. Also your view is very flawed. If everyone on earth who had the “I’m just one person my choices don’t matter” pov actually did their changes the world would be so much better. Yea, you are one person. But guess what? Those numbers add up.

Btw food waste happens every single day in America and other countries regardless. It’s unfortunate but reality.

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u/sparkster185 27d ago

i'm a pretty happy fellow, my doctor says i am in great health and i've been vegan for 3+ years.

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u/effortDee 27d ago

r/veganfitness and i work primarily as a documentary film-maker doing wildlife but also making films about vegans breaking records and doing incredible things.

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u/Smallbunsenpai 24d ago

Many vegans are happy and healthy. You do have to get b12 and other vitamins. A lot of the times it’s a shot. But yeah if you take your supplements and eat a varied diet you can be happy. There’s only a few vitamins you miss out on from not eating meat so it isn’t that hard. Once you stop eating meat for a while you get used to it. Any time I’ve had any incident of eating meat on accident it was really gross, especially beef. I find beef really disgusting. I wasn’t a huge fan of it before but after I stopped for years and accidentally had a taste because of a restaurant mix up I wanted to puke lol.

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u/Opposite-Fall-9868 24d ago

I’d rather eat a burger than have to take pills and get shots.

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u/I_pegged_your_father 27d ago

Eating meat is normal and its fine as long as you’re not wasting it. We’re literally omnivores. Its not disrespectful to eat meat. Its only disrespectful to be cruel.

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u/effortDee 27d ago

So killing an animal for a few minutes of taste pleasure after it's lived a horrible and short hellish life and then murdered via gas, throat cut, electrocuted, etc isn't disrespectful.

The cognitive dissonance of meat eaters is insane.

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u/Flower-1234 27d ago

I know!! Its crazy, meat is pure cruelty, from the moment they are born to when they are killed.

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u/I_pegged_your_father 27d ago

Its not for pleasure its for…eating. A thing all animals do. You know we’re animals too right??? Like we are literally mammals???? So we eat plants and meat??? Because we’re animals???? That eat animals??? Like animals do???? For sustenance???? In the food chain??? In the energy pyramid????

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u/Flower-1234 27d ago

haha if you put a human in with a chicken would it kill it? No because thats not our instincts, whatever you want to think you aren't a lion. You buy meat from a supermarket, thats all nicely packaged and processed for you.

Also you can't adopt one thing that animals do and then disregard all of the other stuff. Would you think it was okay for a mother to eat her baby? Or if we gang raped lone females like ducks do? Also do you want to sniff another humans ass as a greeting?

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u/shrimpseeker 27d ago

Im not really on either side of this argument cuz neither of you are really making the best points, but are you trying to argue that humans arent naturally omnivores because we wouldnt kill a chicken and eat it raw if put in a room with it? Ive seen people try to make a similar argument before and that is the dumbest shit ever. Humans arent controlled by instinct, and that doesnt somehow make us not omnivores. Not even gonna touch the second paragraph of what you wrote because if you cant see how thats stupid im not gonna be able to explain to you how it is stupid. Either way not everyone can be a vegan, plenty of people cant afford it, and theres plenty of other reasons why not.

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u/ProphePsyed 27d ago

So if you lived out in nature a thousand years ago, you think you wouldn’t try to hunt an animal for food..?

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u/foodie_4eva 27d ago

If you put a really hungry human with a chicken, you bet ur ass this human would kill it and cook it if they knew how. Hunger is a very strong driving force

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u/Complex223 26d ago

You need therapy

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u/KououinHyouma 24d ago

If you had the option to get a plant-based meal but didn’t because the meat-based meal option sounded more appetizing, then it wasn’t for sustenance, it was for pleasure.

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u/Separate_Ad4197 27d ago edited 27d ago

If you have equally cheap, healthy, and convenient foods that aren’t slaughtered animals, what really is your motivation? Are you saying so long as the object of consumption happens to be a necessity for life, I can brutally slaughter animals? What if it was water? That’s an even more urgent necessity. Let’s say on one hand I can get water free from the tap, and another way I can get it is by distilling the blood of farmed dogs killed in a typical slaughterhouse fashion. Would it be justified that I slaughter dogs for my water just because the final object of consumption happens to be a necessity for life? Sure I have tap water in my home but maybe I like the minerality of the flavor this way. Circumstance is the difference between self defense and murder, slaughter and euthanasia. In a modern environment the reason people consume meat really is just pleasure and habit.

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u/I_pegged_your_father 27d ago

Dude i cannot even begin to figure out how you pull this out your ass by i hope one day when they cure IBS you can get properly vaccinated or sum

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u/Separate_Ad4197 27d ago edited 27d ago

It’s a simple thought experiment. Why is killing dogs to distill water from their blood any more extreme than slaughtering pigs to eat their dismembered body parts? Both animals have equivalent levels of sentience; on par with that of a 3 year old toddler. Both animals are genetically manipulated, reared, slaughtered, and butchered using modern technology to yield the final product. Are you going to fake outrage so you can keep ignoring the obvious hypocrisy or will you answer the question? In the absence of necessity what is the motivation for these actions?

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u/I_pegged_your_father 26d ago

Food is necessary hope this helps. I dunno dude i think you need therapy im so serious your mind is a weird fucked up place

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u/Separate_Ad4197 27d ago edited 26d ago

If we have foods that are equally healthy, convenient, and cheap; what is the justification for picking a food that causes unimaginable levels of suffering to sentient mammals identical to the dogs we call family? It is their very corpses you are eating. The body of a once thinking, breathing animal that spent its last moments bleeding out in utter terror and pain. It is real, actual gore in your fridge. Infinitely more extreme and outrageous than any sentence 26 symbols in the English alphabet could depict. If you want to be outraged, open your fridge, look at your plate. That is real gore, real suffering. Not thought experiments. That could have been the dog you loved. That bloody steak could be all that’s left of some farm girl’s companion who daddy shipped off to the slaughterhouse through her tears and pleas. Visit a sanctuary and you’ll see cows, pigs, and chickens with stories exactly like that. Beautiful, emotional creatures. Just as much capacity for loyalty and affection as dogs. Please consider extending them some empathy.

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u/I_pegged_your_father 26d ago

Meat is kinda necessary for certain nutrients. Nothing really mimics it. Kinda need it bro. Seriously chill and talk to someone irl.,

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u/Flower-1234 27d ago

How is killing an animal that doesn't want to die not cruel?

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u/Glum-Director-4292 27d ago

a lot of the comments saying something like " I hope that human died instead" also have this dumb logic accompanying them

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u/foodie_4eva 27d ago

Circle of life buddy.. humans and animals need to eat meat. You can do it in a respectful way and not in a cruel way. But things have to die for others to live. That’s life for u..

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u/KououinHyouma 24d ago

Vegans exist. They aren’t starving to death. A balanced vegan diet doesn’t come with any nutrient deficiencies.

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u/I_pegged_your_father 27d ago

Because food…natural food..

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u/dam_the_beavers 27d ago

I agree, but it seems like we can’t even get them to treat humans with respect

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u/Fearless-Sea996 27d ago

Or animals treat human the same way they treat them

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

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u/deltharik 27d ago

I am vegan since a long time, yes.

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

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u/deltharik 27d ago

Can't really say if it is a bait or a sarcasm.

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u/AnUnluckyCat 27d ago

???

He's clearly hunting...... He wants to eat the octopus.....

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u/supermodel_robot 27d ago

Anyone with a brain would know that octopus have the smallest but smartest brain in the animal kingdom. People who live on islands and hunt them, know to bite the brain to kill the thing. They don’t stab them to kill. He was being an idiot and failed, because he decided to fuck with an octopus.

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u/Creme_de_la_Coochie 27d ago

know to bite the brain to kill the thing

Feel like you just made that up.

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u/supermodel_robot 27d ago

lol I wish, I’ve watched a lot of travel documentaries. You can google “bite octopus between the eyes” and dozens of videos pop up.

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u/Additional-War19 27d ago edited 27d ago

He can still treat animals with respect while hunting them. If you treat one of the smartest animals in the world with disrespect, you are gonna get into some trouble, like seen here. A good hunter wouldn’t have manhandled it in such a rough way. There are specific ways to carefully handle an octopus to avoid situations like this.

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u/altcodeinterrobang 27d ago

How is he “clearly” hunting?

  1. he has a spear gun
  2. he has GIANT STRINGER OF FISH
  3. he looks like a dick bothering an octopus and deserved what he got

if he were trying to kill it he'd have just shot it with the speargun.

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u/Additional-War19 27d ago

Didn’t see the spear at first, I apologize, I was very focused on the beautiful octopus. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks he treated it with unnecessary disrespect.

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u/BulbuhTsar 27d ago

this comment thread seems to be under the impression he's fucking it for fun and that it's not gonna end up on the skewer with the rest of the food....

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u/AnUnluckyCat 27d ago edited 27d ago

I'm bewildered at the fact that so many people don't get that? He's just fishing and it went wrong because the octopus latched onto his arm and then it got worse.......

Being glad that a fisherman almost drowned is crazy.

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u/me6675 26d ago

He is doing it for fun though. It's not like this person couldn't live happily without hunting octopus.

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u/QueezyF 24d ago

He’s doing it because grilled octopus is tasty.

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u/taz5963 27d ago

He simply wants calamari

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u/SlowRollingBoil 27d ago

Well then he grabbed the wrong fucking animal, bruh.

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u/taz5963 27d ago

Yeah I always make that mistake. I meant takoyaki

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u/SlowRollingBoil 27d ago

I don't have the balls for it! 😂

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u/taz5963 27d ago

Like, for trying it? Me personally I love calamari but takoyaki is too funky

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u/Ready_Bandicoot1567 27d ago

Spearfishing is by far the most ethical method of sourcing seafood. No lines or nets for turtles to get caught on. No dragging nets across the botton, destroying the sea floor ecosystem. I do not believe commercial octopus fishing methods are less stressful for the animal than what happened here. I get it if you're vegan and against killing animals for food, but if you buy seafood at the market you're sourcing it less ethically than this guy.

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u/No-Environment-7899 27d ago

True. But I just refuse to eat octopus in general. It feels especially wrong.

For meat, I generally also avoid it unless it is sourced from a local farm (lots of them where I come from), which in our area have really good reputations for animal welfare and slaughter.

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u/Ready_Bandicoot1567 27d ago

Thats fair. About 90% of my meat consumption is animals that I or someone in my family personally hunted, fished, or raised in the backyard. Personally I don't think octopuses are smarter than pigs and my freezer is full of wild pork that I killed and butchered myself.

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u/No-Environment-7899 26d ago

I would love to be able to do that! I was vegetarian for a number of years due to my concerns about animal welfare and health, as well as product quality and cleanliness. Sadly the careers of both me and my partner are such that raising animals is just not much of an option, and I’m not what you’d call a skilled hunter.

As far as pigs and octopi go, I agree! I’d say they’re equally as smart generally. For that reason (and again, product quality/cleanliness concerns), I don’t eat any pork products either. Although where I’m from, feral hogs are a HUGE issue and I do feel that their population needs to be curtailed heavily. That is meat I’d be open to eating if I didn’t know first hand how gross the ones around here are 😅.

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u/Human-Scene-8730 27d ago

We put lobsters in boiling water and nobody says anything, maybe it's just another way of getting food

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u/futuregovworker 27d ago

Morality is a social thing. Animals kill each other everyday. What if he wanted to eat it? Are you going to be upset at someone catching food?

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u/Dubstepshepard 27d ago

He's spearfishing...aka hunting for food lol. He is going to eat it

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u/dislob3 27d ago

You should see how animals treat each others.

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u/YouStupidAssholeFuck 27d ago

Animals treat each other the way they do for survival, not for fun. Not mostly. There are instances where animals toy with their prey but it's not widespread and it's still in the course of getting their meal. Do other animals torture and torment other animals for no reason like douchebro in the video? I'm sure there are instances, but you generalize it as the normal order and it's not.

And considering we might be the most intelligent species on the planet, what purpose would doing this serve? Is being bored a good enough reason? Is this some way for us to assert dominance? Most animals already leave us alone anyway so why the need to fire a warning shot?

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u/Sumoki_Kuma 27d ago

Okay? And we try to separate ourselves from animals by wearing clothes and wiping our assholes and living in a civilised society. We see ourselves as the most intelligent beings on earth who evolved to a higher consciousness. And I usually believe that until I see brain dead takes like this and remember most humans are dumber than rocks.

Fucking caveman mentality.

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u/HeWhoShantNotBeNamed 27d ago

Do you eat meat?

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u/MrBagooo 27d ago

Because this guy is a fisherman and wants to either eat the Octopus or sell it for others to eat it. Are you vegan?

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u/PicturePrevious8723 27d ago

I agree with you 100%, but unless you're vegan, you're part of the problem.

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u/Surpreme_Magus 27d ago

Cause they animals

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u/nyanpegasus 27d ago

So are you

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u/Bossdonglongs 27d ago

Incredibly intelligent animals, so they've kinda got one up on you

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u/flannelNcorduroy 27d ago

Humans are apes, dumb dumb!

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u/beastybrewer 27d ago

Because they're delicious

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u/sheetpooster 27d ago

In this case the octopus is going to be food as with the other ball of fish he has, delicious octopuss 🤤.