Obesity applied to just about everything is an existential threat, we evolved as prey animals fighting for scarcity and now have no prey peers except ourselves … so we fight ourselves for resources
A quicker one is to understand biology and where we’re placed ecologically in the food chain.
Eye placement isn’t a bellwether for being a predator. Our forward facing eyes give us pretty good binocular vision which is a pretty good thing for primates to have evolved. Dense foliage is something we’re good at seeing through. We don’t know EXACTLY why we evolved forward facing eyes but this is one of the best theorized guesses.
We have carnivorous traits but are not strictly a predator. We’re somewhere around pigs on the food chain.
What do you consider carnivorous traits? Binocular vision is for depth perception, something the world’s best arm cannon would specialize in. Meanwhile, Orca don’t have binocular vision but are absolutely an apex predator.
Also, humans don’t conform to natural classifications and food chains so arguing what is prey or predator is pointless. Humans are now one of the mass extinction events on this planet and it doesn’t look like that’s going to slow.
We do fight ourselves for resources, but honestly so does basically other animal on earth. Even the previously mentioned orca have had fads of wearing salmon hats for social clout. What makes us special is we understand how we are fucking ourselves over and do it anyway.
Obesity applied to just about everything is an existential threat, we evolved as prey animals fighting for scarcity and now have no prey peers except ourselves … so we fight ourselves for resources
Humans are predators, not prey. A quick heuristic for this is forward-facing eyes.
A quicker one is to understand biology and where we’re placed ecologically in the food chain.
Eye placement isn’t a bellwether for being a predator. Our forward facing eyes give us pretty good binocular vision which is a pretty good thing for primates to have evolved. Dense foliage is something we’re good at seeing through. We don’t know EXACTLY why we evolved forward facing eyes but this is one of the best theorized guesses.
We have carnivorous traits but are not strictly a predator. We’re somewhere around pigs on the food chain.
What do you consider carnivorous traits? Binocular vision is for depth perception, something the world’s best arm cannon would specialize in. Meanwhile, Orca don’t have binocular vision but are absolutely an apex predator.
Also, humans don’t conform to natural classifications and food chains so arguing what is prey or predator is pointless. Humans are now one of the mass extinction events on this planet and it doesn’t look like that’s going to slow.
We do fight ourselves for resources, but honestly so does basically other animal on earth. Even the previously mentioned orca have had fads of wearing salmon hats for social clout. What makes us special is we understand how we are fucking ourselves over and do it anyway.
Pandas.
Pandas are also not prey animals.
Funnily enough, their digestive system is much more suited for meat, berries, etc, they just refuse to eat anything other than bamboo.