Family: Two-year-old Noelani Robinson found dead (updated)

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11. Unfamiliarity leads to romanticization.

Animals kill their young. Maim their young. Eat their young.

Animals engage in territory-based murder. They kill for sport and practice. They rape and coerce sex for reproduction. They also bribe and wheedle and curry favor in the hierarchy and impose hierarchies by force. They engage in territorial cleansing.

As soon as you hear somebody make any argument that "if animals do it, it's natural and therefore must be moral and acceptable" as soon as you reached the "and" you were magically transported to la-la land and the appropriate response is to snort in derision and back away from the crazy.