Do lambs hate lions?

[KrazyHorse]

Or do they realize that without the lions they would overrun their ecosystem and cause a disaster?

[Drake Tungsten]

Given that lambs are physically incapable of reproducing, I fail to see how they would overrun their ecosystem. [/kuci]

[KrazyHorse]

This is a metaphor, you idiot.

[Drake Tungsten]

I'm too stupid for metaphors. Dumb this down for me.

[KrazyHorse]

Plus, lambs grow into things capable of reproducing...

[KrazyHorse]

I'm too stupid for metaphors. Dumb this down for me.

Let's say that lambs could vote for controls that stop the lions from killing too many of them. Should they do it?

[Drake Tungsten]

Plus, lambs grow into things capable of reproducing...

But then they're no longer lambs. A filosofer would think this is important.

[KrazyHorse]

They are still the same individual, unless you subscribe to the idea that at every moment you die and another you is born.

[Drake Tungsten]

Dude, you just blew my mind.

[KrazyHorse]

Or, say, the lambs could vote for measures that would stop the lions from hunting for their own meat, and would force them to hunt only for meat they would then sell on...

[Felch]

Ozzy is about to turn this into a youth rights thing.

[KrazyHorse]

Let's say we think about predatory saltwater fish. They themselves hunt smaller fish. Should they hold some sort of moral superiority over sharks just because the sharks are at the apex of the food chain?

[Drake Tungsten]

Ozzy is about to turn this into a youth rights thing.

This isn't already about youth rights? I must still be confused about the metaphor...

[KrazyHorse]

It's not surprising. You're merely a lamb after all.

[Drake Tungsten]

I wish, but I'm not nearly young enough for that now. I'm just an old ****.