What would be the difference between predatory animals and predatory humans? What say you?

Question

Why not treat each the same? Why kill a tiger and not a human for the same crime?

Answer 1

An animal kills out of instinct developed in the wild for survival. They are guilty of nothing. Humans have the ability to reason. They have a choice of to kill or not to kill, and should know the consequences if they do.

Answer 2

Predatory animals hunt and kill out of instinct to survive. The humans do it just because they are evil and greedy. If one of thems life should be saved it should be the tiger.

Answer 3

i am enraged at how they treated that tiger they recently confirmed that the police lured the tiger away long enough to use a dart all the police fired at once. Animals have the same right to live. I hate hearing about people who kill animals getting short sentences. You can take the tiger out of the wild but you cant take the wild out of the tiger.

But because humans arent born as actal predators and have the brain capacity to choose between actions I dont believe they have the right to be predators especially against other human beings.

Answer 4

I think that it was terrible that the tiger was killed. It was a sad disaster that those people were attacked and the young person killed, but it wasn't the fault of the tiger; Tigers do what tigers do.

It was however a crime if the animal was intentionally turned loose on the zoo visitors and the person who let the animal out should be tried for murder.

Answer 5

Yes, and why kill a grizzly bear for attacking a human when the human offered food to the grizzly, but then decided that the grizzly had had enough?
You pose a good question; the only "excuse" I can think of is that Humans are higher than mere critters. But, that would also mean that Humans should be held to a higher standard.

Answer 6

You know what is funny. When the reporters describe the tiger attack as..."murderous rampage" or "viciously & brutally". I don't think the tiger had 'murder' on her mind. As for vicious & brutal is there a clam nice way for a tiger to attack?

The problem w/ what you suggest (& I agree w/ you) is that there are too many 'bleeding hearts' that would claim a human can be 'rehabilitated' & that 'all forms of human life is presious' (yeah tell that to Hitler) and that 'only God has the right to determin who lives & who dies'...

I say God is busy, we need to help him out & sort the trash out.

Answer 7

Because natural predators are only behaving the way they're supposed to behave,it's hard-wired into them.Humans,on the other hand,have a choice whether or not to act on their predatory impulses.So no,kill a bobcat for being a bobcat?No.Off a sexual predator for doing what he wants and does so every chance he gets? OH YEAH
TL

Answer 8

If a human, having just killed one person and injured two others, then approached the police with apparent hostility, they would have killed the human.

In this case, it was a tiger.

Answer 9

The rich prey off the poor and middle class everyday. The powerful walk all over the weak. The difference is the predators who do this brainwash people to participate in their own demise. The results can be the same. How many people die in this country everyday because they don't have healthcare. The difference is animals do it to survive not for power and money. We are more animals than the animals.

Answer 10

humans have access to more resources, they have more freedom, and they have more brains (relatively speaking). a tiger in a zoo is a prisoner of humans, in a situation created by humans, and its actions will be controlled by that environment. an animal just acts like itself. humans have more choice to alter their behaviors. it is not the same thing.