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Orcas train in packs, and have been observed passing learned behavioral traits onto others.

I can only hope they one day rise out of the sea to destroy us all.

We are sufficiently deadly that in order for something to pose a credible threat to us, we have to make it up and give it powers that don't exist in reality. And even then, most of the time, we still win.

This is false. We already pose a very real, credible threat to us.

“Superpredator” is not a scientific term. It was used as an “overconsumer” in one publication, as far as I can find, but that meaning doesn’t fit the narrative of your copypasta.
And we definitely don’t maintain domestication of other predators through our predatory ability. On the contrary, domestication and cultivation of other species is what allows us to domesticate carnivores.

We are omnivorous vindictive social apes. Don’t take that description lightly.

We also have two real superpowers:

• We’re the only animal on the planet that can scale stable social groups into millions while being individually complex. Some glitch of ours broke cranial limitations of the group size that other primates adhere to.
• We are the only animal to have developed languages with complex grammars. While other animals can exhibit complex signaling systems, and possibly learn grammars we develop, we effortlessly develop and learn grammars that allow us to express novel thoughts without waiting for evolution. Hell, our children develop throwaway languages as a side-effect of playing with each other.

Everything else is a consequence.

PS: Blue-green algae would like a word about that “extinction event” claim. PPS: Leave hydrogen unattended for long enough, and it will start arguing on the internet.

Dislike this animal.

"The planet is fine! The people are fucked." - Carlin

Humans are space orcs

That's like The Damned series by Alan Dean Foster.

Basically alien societies naturally formed without the type of infighting and barbarism humans started with, so the entire idea of war to them was extremely foreign and uncomfortable until they were attacked. They formed an alliance to push back the empire trying to conquer them, but they lacked the will or martial ingenuity to really hold the empire back. Then they come across humans, and the first (random) human they come across accidentally severely injures their ambassador. So they offer humans heaps of technology and resources for soldiers. They don't offer membership (because we're absolute nightmares) if I remember correctly, but Earth is fine with that. People volunteer in droves to see the galaxy and fight in wars where they are so overpowered it feels like they put in a cheat code.

The series is about... well, what happens to our society when our main export is unstoppable death and destruction. Hence "The Damned."

This premise and the HumanityFuckYeah is what originally brought me to Reddit. There's a lemmy for it, too, but it isnt as active

https://lemmy.world/c/hfy

Maybe if we get more interest we can build it up!

FOSS series of novels? Is that another term for a web serial? A free novel or story posted in chunks online?

Alternatively after seeing IT Follows - I am not whoring it up enough. That's the only way to stay safe.

We're the Terminators of the animal kingdom. We're slow and deliberate, able to stalk our prey for days or weeks at a time, and can often come back from injuries that would be a death sentence for other animals.

Do you recommend this movie? I could use a good horror flick for the weekend

The problem with eating meat is not the eating meat. I don't give a fuck if someone eats meat from an animal that hasn't suffered, that was free and in its natural habitat. I don't know if I would myself because after 15 years of not eating meat I don't think I'd still like it, but it's not unethical. The problem is the untold amount of widespread suffering and cruelty of beings with emotions and sentience and attachments and capacity for both physical and emotional pain that is industrial livestock farming.

I've also heard theories that our empathy is actually a hunting tool. If we were to lose our prey, say in the brush around a water source, we could put ourselves in its mind. From there, we could empathize and predict their actions, and so follow them, even without tracks. From the prey's perspective, they finally lost us and escaped, they are exhausted and overheating, but alive. Suddenly the predictor re-emerges, and the chase is back on.

Vegetarianism being a fairly unique human trait suddenly makes sense, from this perspective. A lion doesn't really need to get into the mind of their prey, and so empathising with them is actually a negative. For humans it was a critical tool. It's only secondary that we turned it on each other, allowing for super-tribes to function.

i mean that's more down to us being intelligent and social while also liking to eat meat, if elephants hunted they'd probably face similar moral quandries

dolphins are psychos though

I don't know if your second to last paragraph is a meme, but all humans reject immoral behaviors that occur in the wild, not just vegans. Lions also commit infanticide so their genetics carry on and competing male lions don't, it makes sense biologically. Yet humans don't commit this behavior because we know it's wrong. Dolphins rape other dolphins, which again for the furthering of your own genetics makes sense. You should implant your seed in as many helpless victims as you can, and yet again, humans don't do this because we know it's wrong.

Pretending like vegans are the weird ones because we're simply consistent about our morality is wild. Non-vegans even get upset at the idea of eating dogs or cats, so it's not even like they're universally in favor of torturing and slaughtering helpless animals, only the ones that have been objectified by whatever culture they live in.

Animals we hunt be like

Zombies, Fey, any weird shit in our fiction comes from "What if what we are to animals, but to us?"

Unlike you fly that works pretty well.