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[theweaselking]

torrain: Are babies prey animals?

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[torrain.livejournal.com]

...I wish I could claim that was taken out of context. :)

[frith]

That must have been a rhetorical question...

[torrain.livejournal.com]

No, entirely serious.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

The problem with killing abortion doctors, as any hunter will tell you, is that if you kill too many predators, the prey population explodes.

Okay, off to hell. See you when you get there.

[harald387.livejournal.com]

...Is this a Dwarf Fortress thing?

[torrain.livejournal.com]

No. A discussion on how few prey animals humans keep as pets, and a random follow-up to said discussion.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Yes. As they are easy to kill, and don't often fight back.

[flemco.livejournal.com]

This is true of all babies across the board in every Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

To be fair to zenten, I did not specify human babies.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I would not count physically weak battered spouses to be prey animals, so I have trouble considering babies prey animals on that criteria.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

They are also often hunted, even if from a predator species, if you don't require this to be humans that we're talking about.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

...okay, your statement "don't often fight back" is starting to creep me out more and more.

They don't?
Or they don't do it effectively?
And not often?
What's often?
How do you know?
Did you check?

...gyahh.

[harald387.livejournal.com]

Some days I think you put waaaay too much thought into this sort of thing.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

What scares me is that it comes naturally.

It occasionally takes a minute or two for implications to trickle in, but it doesn't often require conscious effort anymore, just reasonable attention.

Spot the English major. ;)

[zenten.livejournal.com]

My sister was born when I was 3.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

This statement?

So not helping.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

What, don't you have siblings?

[benarian.livejournal.com]

Emphatically yes. They're often even pre-tenderized.