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Like, it's probably pretty rad to be a snail and have no loving idea what's going on eating whatever happens to be around without comprehension of mortality until you just stop existing for no discernible reason. I have to drive to work and talk to dipshit assholes so I can buy a hot dog that I know is going to kill me. Something doesn't add up.
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Does this look happier than us
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Mar 10, 2022 03:03
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EorayMel posted:Does this look happier than us Yeah for sure.
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Animals simply focus on doing what they need to do to survive and pass on their genes but humanity hosed up this simple formula that worked for billions of years by applying a sense of morality to their actions. So now the man who kills another guy to rape his wife thinks it's ok for him to do it because he's "good", the other guy is "evil", and his wife is subhuman cattle, and there is an almighty god who agrees with the first guy's actions and will reward him with a heavenly paradise despite being a psychotic murderer and rapist.
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Golden Retrievers are happier than us - Everything else suffers from the grim weight of existence in it's own way. Edit: Except Capybaras, who have fully accepted their place in the universe.
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Serak posted:Golden Retrievers are happier than us - Everything else suffers from the grim weight of existence in it's own way.  what about this dude? 
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Yaldabaoth posted:Animals simply focus on doing what they need to do to survive and pass on their genes but humanity hosed up this simple formula that worked for billions of years by applying a sense of morality to their actions. So now the man who kills another guy to rape his wife thinks it's ok for him to do it because he's "good", the other guy is "evil", and his wife is subhuman cattle, and there is an almighty god who agrees with the first guy's actions and will reward him with a heavenly paradise despite being a psychotic murderer and rapist. what the HELL are you talking about also yes my snail is happier than me. check my boy out 
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DrPossum posted:
You know that episode of the Simpsons where Flanders finally snaps because he can't hold up his endless positivity in the face of the misery and incompetence surround him? Quokkas are like that
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DrPossum posted:
Australia is like the last place you'd expect to find something like the quokka, an animal that's so cute it looks like a CG rendering of something from a Disney cartoon.
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I mean almost every hoop we have to jump through and stupid game we have to play, just to not die in an alley way from starvation or a preventable disease has been created by us, humanity. I don't see fish doing this to each other.
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Mar 10, 2022 03:16
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I wish I was a snail
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Mar 10, 2022 03:17
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Banana slugs have dicks the size of their bodies 
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If you’ve ever seen wild animals up close, they are usually smiling. You rarely see that poo poo in photography because they catch them when they’re out and hungry. But they’re usually smiling when they’re just chilling. So I’d say about the same happiness as people, same range of emotions.
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Mar 10, 2022 04:00
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Are spiders happy when they sit on a dog turd on the grass for four hours and wait for a fly to land two inches from their faces
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Yaldabaoth posted:Animals simply focus on doing what they need to do to survive and pass on their genes but humanity hosed up this simple formula that worked for billions of years by applying a sense of morality to their actions. So now the man who kills another guy to rape his wife thinks it's ok for him to do it because he's "good", the other guy is "evil", and his wife is subhuman cattle, and there is an almighty god who agrees with the first guy's actions and will reward him with a heavenly paradise despite being a psychotic murderer and rapist. I'm sorry, I couldn't help but hear this in your avatars Canadian Kermit voice. Answer: Predator animals = Blissful Prey Animals = Riddled with Anxiety, so lateral move I guess.
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Mar 10, 2022 04:02
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Intestinal parasite deep in someone's butt Hey it'sa living!
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EorayMel posted:Are spiders happy when they sit on a dog turd on the grass for four hours and wait for a fly to land two inches from their faces Maybe not there but i usually see spiders in a web and that seems pretty cool. Probably feels good when you make the web come out your butt too.
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Mar 10, 2022 04:36
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In the Flintstones all the animals seemed to be very exhausted and were stuck in dead end jobs
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I agree, the lack of existential dread helps with happiness big time.
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Colonel Cancer posted:Banana slugs have dicks the size of their bodies heh wow didnt expect to find out that i was a banana slug today but here we are. my penis is gigantic is what im trying to say.
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Mar 11, 2022 03:07
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They don't call me banana for my colour
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My dog seems pretty dang happy most of the time, but also if im like 5 minutes late feeding him its like the worst thing in the universe so i guess its one of those the highs are highs and lows are low situations 
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Yaldabaoth posted:Animals simply focus on doing what they need to do to survive and pass on their genes but humanity hosed up this simple formula that worked for billions of years by applying a sense of morality to their actions. So now the man who kills another guy to rape his wife thinks it's ok for him to do it because he's "good", the other guy is "evil", and his wife is subhuman cattle, and there is an almighty god who agrees with the first guy's actions and will reward him with a heavenly paradise despite being a psychotic murderer and rapist. 
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well, I have to pay $60 for a game I might play and enjoy for a few hours, meanwhile my kitten just looks behind him and has entertainment for days so long as he forgets he has a tail
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Mar 11, 2022 04:49
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 Sure seems like it op
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If I wasn't a human, I'd be an octopus.
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Those 1 day bugs that never have to poo poo or brush teeth in their whole lives 
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I'd reckon that humans are part of the few that are able to 'know' beforehand about their future demise (at age appropriate development), and it makes me wonder how much of a concept of death animals generally have. It probably runs the gamut pretty well, and I am reminded of Elephants mourning their dead at literal graveyards, and stray cats/dogs who travel with a companion that ends up hit by a car and they refuse to leave their side. Maybe that brain jump to mammal does it, but maybe birds can mourn? Crows perhaps. Octopus might. Snails, no, they are chill.
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dogs are, cats aren’t. everything else not sure
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https://i.imgur.com/gUqdn0L.mp4 This guy is living his best life. Wild animals probably have a lot of fun, but being a pet seems miserable. I saw a lot of farm dogs tied up on short leashes outside when I was in Korea and thought how awful it was they could only move around in a radius of only a couple feet. But then I realized inside the apartment is even worse since it's roughly the same size, but nothing even moves in there, no one passes by, no birds or anything. We keep a lot of animals in extremely small boxes most of the day. Sure, sometimes they go for walks and stuff if they're dogs, but pet life seems unsufferably boring for most pets most of the time.
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I can't remember where I heard it but I heard someone say something like "the gazelle having escaped the lion pursuing it is overjoyed, believing that it has eluded death once and for all."
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(some) Pets yes, wild animals no
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depends on the circumstances https://twitter.com/GatorsDaily/status/1502065258839646209?s=20&t=w75pAMhr5g0Ea4CQKtiQ9Q
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Shadow0 posted:Wild animals probably have a lot of fun, but being a pet seems miserable. Most of nature spends every single day of its life fighting to not starve, be eaten alive or die of exposure, with a full load of parasites and infections that are never treated. Wild animals do things like leave the young and sick to be eaten by wolves, because that's how nature rolls. They have a much worse life in general than your spoiled apartment dog.
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poverty goat posted:Most of nature spends every single day of its life fighting to not starve, be eaten alive or die of exposure, with a full load of parasites and infections that are never treated. Wild animals do things like leave the young and sick to be eaten by wolves, because that's how nature rolls. They have a much worse life in general than your spoiled apartment dog. So do you have no brain or is it just out on loan?
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Have a look at this dog playing in a muddy puddle https://i.imgur.com/ct2eDWs.mp4 Have you ever been that happy in your entire life? That carefree? That unburdened by cares and worries and stress?
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poverty goat posted:Most of nature spends every single day of its life fighting to not starve, be eaten alive or die of exposure, with a full load of parasites and infections that are never treated. Wild animals do things like leave the young and sick to be eaten by wolves, because that's how nature rolls. They have a much worse life in general than your spoiled apartment dog. Parasites are the spice of life!
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my dog is really happy for the most part but shes also afraid of outdoor furniture so it seems like there are pros and cons
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poverty goat posted:Most of nature spends every single day of its life fighting to not starve, be eaten alive or die of exposure, with a full load of parasites and infections that are never treated. Wild animals do things like leave the young and sick to be eaten by wolves, because that's how nature rolls. They have a much worse life in general than your spoiled apartment dog. But do they know that?
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