the act of eating can be seen as lazily evoking pain & death in other life so as not to have to feed oneself like a platonic plant (platonic because plants make war too). the platonic plant gives up mobility for a strategy of unreserved submission to fate. its going to sit there where it is and whatever happens will happen (and watch that idea dissolve off into examples of plant volition). If animals don't like the situation they try to get up and leave. plants will secrete chemicals, grow out strangler roots, etc. but they sit right there where god put them. animals will use mobility to try to produce what they want by going and taking. here come the animals. good luck.
predator animals like us have a history of big exciting athletic efforts preceding feeding. we go boom then we go yum, the corpse of the victim twitching red before us, growl, roar. we know what the victim is feeling, its destruction elevates us, we survive because it dies. it can go ahead and surrender if it wants to, we're going to eat it anyway. growl. maybe lions have moral qualms about their food like some of us do, but those second "thoughts" don't get in the way of keeping the organism alive. just go ahead and die, i'm hungry. or don't, i don't care, stay alive, i'll eat you anyway.
not all animals are predators of course and not all non-predators are helpless: depends on the situation. they are all helpless against the top predator here: us. we have no enemies other than our own stupidities. the least they can do, we think, is surrender gracefully to our hunger, and some of them do, we call them "domesticated."
just trying to figure this stuff out.
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