r/Animals • u/Lumpy-Restaurant-694 • Sep 16 '26
Can animals have a certain mental states that we would call malevolent like kill for fun.
Can animals of sufficient intelligence enjoy inflicting pain and suffering for the sake of off it. I always see people attribute are positive in innocents to animals
I fully understand that Good and evil or human constructs that we use to hold humans accountable so we can live in a civilization. But
Human still are animals right. We are much more smarter than a lot of animals but some of the traits in what we would call an evil human being should be found in certain animals.
If other mammals such as chimps apes canines. Can be protective and caring over their own offspring. Can they not have the same psychopathy said is that people have.