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FUCK pigs, hogs, boars, warthogs, and anything of the family Suidae.

ok now what?

Thanks Mr Cody

Alternatively a great plot to a room mate story about a lib and a cop.

I've said this in another comment but I don't necessarily think he is, on the surface. Cast the first stone if you never snapped at a love one for some reason or other. It's just that our snapping is verbal (or, worse, admittedly) and a wild hogs snapping is doing this thing, which kills you instantly

Stop humanizing animal thought processes. For goodness sake, they do not think like us at all.

On the basis of honest discussion I disagree with this, at least partially. It seems very much remniscient of the whole "subdue the earth" bullshit that seemingly has guided much of human politics because some 19th century dickweeds couldn't accept that man and beast aren't actually that dissimilar. That's a being with emotions and some kind of things akin / near feelings. (and sorry if I'm very much triggered here )

I genuinely think the bigger problem here is pushing it too far. If the actual goddamn wild hog grows up with you, it considers you a peer, pack member or whatever, because animals do form social bonds. Crucially, it is too fucking dumb to realize you are way, way more squishy than another hog which would've licked their wounds about this and recovered.

I think the moral of the story here is big, wild animals aren't mindless killers that adhere to no social relations, it is that the risk if your wild hog ever misjudges the amount of rough housing it can do you're dead as fuck because wild hogs are terrifyingly durable. Do not get too friendly with an animal that, as soon as it approaches a group of 10, will fuck up any civilisatory achievement made by humans.

I don't think we're so different in spirit, but i do think we're very much different in razor sharp tusks backed up by 300kg of angy

I agree. Mammals have higher brains and reasoning, on the scale of animal eating ethics, eating mammals is the least ethical, compared to certain fish/reptiles (not saying anyone should eat any animals) just that mammals have the most advanced brains as we understand them, and birds are pretty advanced too.

Having said that about mammals, it's not clear that other mammals form the same types of long term bonds that humans expect. Like, I did all this great stuff for this animal, so this animal is going to treat me good. It's more like, the animal is reacting to get what it wants, and it's very encounter to encounter.