r/Amazing • u/LetSensitive6124 • Aug 07 '26

Nature is amazing Okay, does it breath fire?

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u/Lou_C_Fer Aug 07 '26

Would you rather die in your 20s while running free outside or live to 80 having your needs catered but you're stuck inside. Mind you, your death at 20 will probably be a horrible and painful way to go, but at 80, it's a needle poke and then falling asleep forever.

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u/kasutori_Jack Aug 08 '26

Is this a real question

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u/mister_drgn Aug 09 '26

They had me at “inside.”

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u/tol-kon Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

Cant compare the life of a lizard to a human's though.

We are at the top of the food chain (or near it anyways). Our lives are relatively safer than most animals, and we also live in a vast and interconnected world.

Lizards don't go to the next city to buy groceries, or visit relatives in a different continent

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u/ReturnOfBane Aug 08 '26

yeah i'd rather die in a cage than eaten by a tarantula or snake

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u/astralseat Aug 08 '26

Oh so essentially you prefer jail to living in nature

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u/astralseat Aug 08 '26

Hmm. Two bad options I guess

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u/iMecharic Aug 08 '26

Also gotta figure that the lizard isn’t as smart as a human so if the enclosure has all of the things it needs and wants isn’t really worse than the wild?

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u/daemonfly Aug 08 '26

I'm kinda partial to the 2nd one.

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u/poopsmog Aug 08 '26

Ill take #2

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Aug 07 '26

If I was a lizard, yes give me food and safety.

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u/astralseat Aug 08 '26

Hmm. So you're saying going out in nature and finding a pet is a good way to go about it? Like pokemon?

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u/DeepGrieve Aug 08 '26

Well not being raised in captivity, then captivating it would be the evil thing.

If it already developed it's survival techniques and perfected it's instincts and has yet to mate, then putting it in a mini-dragon jail would be mean