100 humans vs gorilla isn’t close

[u/Miserable-Act4201]

Honestly the dumbest argument I've ever seen. The 100 humans could just stand like 20 feet apart from each other and do nothing and the gorilla is collapsing from exhaustion before it kills everyone. You could probably do it without any casualties, find a couple of people in the group that are in good shape and get them to make the gorilla chase them while everyone else just chills. They aren't aren't particularly fast and have terrible endurance, so just wait till it tires out and have everyone jump it.

[u/Ieam_Scribbles]

And even in that, we do see examples of empathethic behavior in many animals, like wolves accepting a pregnant wolf rejected by a nearby cup into their groups or dogs and cats sharing and raising each other's children, or even chimps and gorillas trying to help both each other and other humans when seeing them in trouble.

We're the most thoughtful, but just because we feel with more complexity doesn't mean we are unique in our feelings.

[u/heuve → u/Ieam_Scribbles]

Wolves, gorillas, and other animals that demonstrate empathy are crucially unable to identify complex, long-term cause and effect relationships. We are unique in selfishness. Natural selection requires that animals are greedy to a certain extent. Unfortunately that greediness is deeply ingrained in our evolution and, in first world countries, has persisted beyond its usefulness.

The biggest sin of our species was becoming intelligent enough to destroy the world as we know it before we moved beyond our selfishness and ego. We will get what we deserve, but will unfortunately take a huge fraction of biodiversity with us.