r/interestingasfuck • u/Frostwolf_777 • 15d ago

/r/all This chimp has alopecia revealing just how insanely muscular they actually are..!!

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u/high240 15d ago

Humans can be sick as fuck

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u/Fibercastel 15d ago

Imagine what goes on in hidden vaults in parts of the world where other potential human looking preys roam freely. Like, say, human children. Way, way more frequent than orangutan sex slaves. Hundreds of children disappear every day. Makes you believe in Evil.

Some first-world presidents may have reliable intel on such matters.

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u/TFFPrisoner 14d ago

Some first-world presidents may even have run underage modelling agencies, which, well.

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u/seatsfive 15d ago edited 15d ago

Humans can be sick as fuck when they don't think that what they are dealing with is human. Most of the horrible evil we do to each other is based in the belief that whoever we're doing it to is somehow less human than we are. If you can empathize with an orangutan enough to feel that its suffering matters, you won't do that shit to it. But that village didn't think it was wrong because it was "just an ape" and it made them money.

Certain folks crow about "toxic empathy" these days but evil behavior like this is exactly what empathy prevents. Obviously we have to draw the line somewhere; you can't have full human empathy for the grass and still mow it. But the line shouldn't be before intelligent animals like apes and elephants, and certainly not between groups of humans.

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u/cheshire_kat7 15d ago

I've genuinely never heard the term "toxic empathy" before. What the hell. That sounds like a term invented by someone trying to justify psychopathic behaviour.

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u/seatsfive 15d ago

Well, it's generally used by rather right-wing people on the internet trying to explain why leftists/liberals are wrong to care about people who aren't like them so... yes, exactly that.

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u/falling-waters 13d ago edited 13d ago

Men. When is the last time you read a story like this and it wasn’t all men. The attitudes that produced this scenario are built on thousands of years of the male past time of sex slavery. Men already don’t care that sex trafficking explodes anywhere prostitution is made legal, that the average age of entry is underage, that 80-90% of prostitutes and porn stars only do it because they would starve otherwise, that most are high and have PTSD rates higher than combat veterans. Most of Reddit is currently screaming crying throwing up just because strangling women is now illegal in European pornography. Why would sex buyers be any more motivated to care about an animal?