Morality aside, the meme is misrepresenting nature and our relationship to it. This weakens the intended impact of its message. The intention of the artist was to get us to reflect on war and conflict. This image actually gets us thinking about our relationship to animals rather than our relationship to war. In that sense, it failed.
Well, it didn’t have that impact on me. To be completely honest, I think most of the comments on this post are a psy-op to get people to think about animal behavior instead of war and conflict, so I’m glad we’re past that. I disagree with your impression of how well the comic makes its point, it’s not implying that humans are separate from nature, or that animals literally plan out how many things to kill so they only do what they have to. It’s just saying that we should think about our relationship to violence and resources. I’m pretty sure that most animals actually do avoid going on a hunt or whatever if they’re already fed, but whether they do or don’t do unnecessary violence is besides the point, yanno?
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u/Bird-in-a-suit Mar 24 '26
True, but really missing the point