• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    There is a correlative link between the willingness to hurt animals and psychopathy.

    I think you’re conflating hunting with torturing animals for entertainment…

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        11 hours ago

        Lol, I’m sure you do… you’re just being purposely obtuse. Hunters do not hunt with intent to cause undue suffering to animals. With the animal harm associated with psychopathy the suffering is the express intent of the harm, not a byproduct of it.

        If hunting was actually correlated with psychopathy then we’d be in a bit of a pickle, considering that we evolved from hunting and gathering societies.

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          8 hours ago

          Hmm … maybe you’re right in that it’s a matter of degrees. To me, there’s a minimum amount of empathy that people should have, and below that I think they’re crazy. So yes, psychopaths are probably more crazy than hunters. I can see that making sense.

          To me, it still takes a crazy mind to look at a breathing mammal and straight up murder it. More so the more intelligent it is.

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            2 hours ago

            Hmm … maybe you’re right in that it’s a matter of degrees. To me, there’s a minimum amount of empathy that people should have, and below that I think they’re crazy.

            Psychology is not really a hard science, there is no real minimum or maximum requirements needed for a diagnosis. It’s all subjective to how a patient interacts and behaves compared to the social normative.

            To me, it still takes a crazy mind to look at a breathing mammal and straight up murder it.

            Eh, I guess it just depends on your ethical construct. I’m mostly a vegetarian because of environmental reasons, that and I think that industrialized farming is morally abhorrent. I would much rather hunt, kill, and consume a deer than go to a Wendy’s. There’s a lot less suffering involved in virtually all hunting than just about any industrialized farm.