I was specifically referring to the evolutionary fitness of the SPECIES, not the life of an INDIVIDUAL animal. Those are two completely different concepts. There are animals that literally live in the colon of larger animals that are extremely successful as a species, but the lives of the individuals are pretty shitty. The evolutionary process doesn’t care how nice your life is, just that you live long enough to reproduce.
Should we be mistreating animals then? Hell no! Evolution and human ethics are also two completely different concepts.
Human ethics is too often quite debatable. With 80% of dogs with obesity problems and breeds so overbred to fit the canons, that almost all large breeds end up with serious hip problems, small breeds that can no longer even give birth without medical assistance and intervention, or these pugs with respiratory problems and chronic eye inflammation.
We confuse their gratitude and submission with that they like to be with us, although it is in their nature to see us as the leader of the pack that is followed to death, even when it mistreats them.
I was specifically referring to the evolutionary fitness of the SPECIES, not the life of an INDIVIDUAL animal. Those are two completely different concepts. There are animals that literally live in the colon of larger animals that are extremely successful as a species, but the lives of the individuals are pretty shitty. The evolutionary process doesn’t care how nice your life is, just that you live long enough to reproduce.
Should we be mistreating animals then? Hell no! Evolution and human ethics are also two completely different concepts.
Human ethics is too often quite debatable. With 80% of dogs with obesity problems and breeds so overbred to fit the canons, that almost all large breeds end up with serious hip problems, small breeds that can no longer even give birth without medical assistance and intervention, or these pugs with respiratory problems and chronic eye inflammation. We confuse their gratitude and submission with that they like to be with us, although it is in their nature to see us as the leader of the pack that is followed to death, even when it mistreats them.