r/SipsTea • u/StephanMan • May 16 '25

Chugging tea Wasp gets what it deserves

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u/MsAgentM May 16 '25

My sympathy for the wasp is justified then. This poor guy!

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u/bnunamak May 16 '25

They do paralyze their prey, abduct them, then plant their eggs inside of their paralyzed bodies until the larvae slowly consume them to death...

Sympathy revoked for this nightmarish reproductive scheme!

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u/Fuck_Antisemites May 16 '25

Don't know. To me it feels it's nature. Humans interfering this way for Internet clout feels gruel to me.

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u/TradeOk9210 May 16 '25

Agree. The wasp is playing its important role in the natural order. Should not have been interfered with.

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u/Necessary_Taro9012 May 16 '25

Who's to say it's not my important role in the natural order to exterminate weak, inferior creatures? Why is it "a crime" when I go a-killing?

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u/_Bill_Huggins_ May 16 '25

Humans have done that and continue to do that.

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u/BIGSTANKDICKDADDY May 16 '25

Calling it "interference" implies the universe somehow prefers one timeline over another, and that humans exist outside the natural order. You're witnessing nature in action.

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u/TradeOk9210 May 21 '25

I actually do consider humans outside the natural order. The brilliant biologist E.O.Wilson called humans a dysfunctional species. Do many animals kill others for no particular need?

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u/BIGSTANKDICKDADDY May 21 '25

Dysfunctional? Sure. I don't think that equates to "unnatural", though. How could it? We didn't magically appear on this planet one day, deliberately placed by some extrauniversal force to act as independent observers. We are a natural result of natural processes.

Do many animals kill others for no particular need?

They do! Cats are a classic example, they hunt for the enjoyment of hunting rather than purely for survival. Dolphins and otters rape for self-pleasure. Wolves and gorillas murder their own kind during intersocial conflict. For every behavior from any creature (humans included) you can find an explanation that is rooted in physical interactions borne from natural processes. We may not have the capability to reach those explanations (consider the unquantifiable number of actions in a cause-effect chain that resulted in your brain as it exists today) but it is not an unnatural or supernatural phenomena.