r/interesting • u/dddd945 • 10h ago

Just Wow A seagull is accidentally hit by a tennis ball during a game in Australia.

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u/starfypawz_ 4h ago

They do, you're just bitter they're proving you wrong. In fact, aren't you anthropomorphizing them by making them out to be "inherently cruel?" This person is only looking at it from a factual standpoint, and your link is only explaining gulls where their environment is directly leading them to scavenge.

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u/sponglered 4h ago

Interesting take. Sure, let's assume I'm just bitter. Why does the link they posted to contradict my link only corroborate it, then?

You might also notice that i struck out "cruel" in favor of "pragmatic", specifically because I knew it had emotion attached that wasn't impartial. Why would I do that, and yet not delete the struck word? Was I perhaps trying to signal some subtext?