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Posted: **Tue Aug 17, 2021 10:26 pm**

I tend to avoid debates on Twitter since almost nothing good comes from them, but I recently had a short discussion about Wild Animal Suffering on there which was interesting.
https://twitter.com/redharlow2056/statu ... 3473832966

My position: While wilw animal lives are certainly hard, that doesn't automatically translate to suffering, as they've adapted to their environments, and for the vast majority of animals, especially mammals, life isn't brutal torture.

Any thoughts?

Posted: **Wed Aug 18, 2021 3:22 pm**

Red wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 10:26 pm I tend to avoid debates on Twitter since almost nothing good comes from them, but I recently had a short discussion about Wild Animal Suffering on there which was interesting.
https://twitter.com/redharlow2056/statu ... 3473832966

My position: While wilw animal lives are certainly hard, that doesn't automatically translate to suffering, as they've adapted to their environments, and for the vast majority of animals, especially mammals, life isn't brutal torture.

Any thoughts?

Being killed by predator, though, is probably better than being killed by cancer, and most rabbits get testicular or ovarian cancer once they are over 2 years old.

Posted: **Sun May 22, 2022 7:38 pm**

I would guess that most wild animals do not have what we would call "happy" lives. Are they suffering? My feeling is that by and large, yes.

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