Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "BEST OF 2022: PART 2 | Rich Roll Podcast" video.

  1. Prey animals have it rough all over. Killed by a sledgehammer or bolt gun, or ripped apart while still alive by a pack of wolves. Personally I would rather have a clean death dealt by a responsible hunter after living free in the wild. Though I personally am not going to hunt or eat animals, I think that disregarding what will happen to animals in the wild is disingenuous: no hunting with few predators results in slow starvation in winter, so either reestablishing predator levels or sport hunting are necessary to prevent overpopulation and starvation. Face it, if you are a cow or deer there is little chance you will die of old age, or in a painless manner whether in a factory farm or in the wild. A least in the wild every moment is not dismal.
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  2.  @brenda44414  Hmmm. . . I almost feel like writing some kind of "be not troubled" response. But personally I am much more likely to be debilitated by my own awareness of the repetitious and and quite mechanical nature of my own thoughts than by some primal survival mechanism of nature. Humans have been prey for far longer than they have been at the top of the food chain. Far far longer. I imagine that racial memory affords a certain empathy regarding the situation of other victims of organisms that adopted a predatory genetic strategy.
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