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Warning: potentially dangerous, politically incorrect and morally relentless ideas ahead. Oh yes, and cussing

Hellooooooooo my friends. As some of you certainly noticed, I upload a comic of my own making every now and then, featuring none other but my own very humble (NOT) and otherwise awesome and adorable self X3 At some point I thought: what better occasion (i.e. excuse) to spam you guys with some of my contemplations over things. I call it "misceptions" (rather lame title, but eh) and you understand that in any way you want.

This is not really part of the The Azure Woes comic series. It just shamelessly uses it as means to spread the vile and viciously virulent spores of my intellectual evilness

So what is this really about.
I happen to be a bizarre individual who likes to ponder over things he could simply pass by (as decent normal people do, but I am neither). I guess I have way too much time at my disposal. Sometimes I go into a problem and analyze it (because too much free time as specified already), occasionally I reach conclusions which I am arrogant enough to believe are worth sharing with others. Or quite honestly, sometimes the ideas and attitude others demonstrate, mildly said, irritate me so I'm itching to show them just how much they are wrong in my eyes. Indeed, I've been literally itching to shout to the world: "You're damn wrong with that!" ....alright, not quite literally, but in any case enough to make me draw a freaking comic. My innate laziness so totally busted oO The n-point form of doing that is convenient and a strategic move. People like reading stuff like "10 things you'll disagree with" or "7 ways to enlarge your boobs". Well, take that as my self-made "5 things you might disagree with but that won't really quite stop me from saying".
Oh yes, feel free to discuss if you want. But be warned, I'm not prone to change my views. I am not tolerant for quarrels either.

First, I'll address Nature. Because it's my field, so to speak. Nature and more precisely, the neverending struggle between predators and prey. Everybody knows how that works, right: the predator chases the prey, catches it, kills it and eats it. Somewhere around the "catches it" and "kills it" points most people go off: "Oh nooooooooo! Poor calf / antelope / deer / rabbit / whatever, got murdered by the big bad wolf / lion / tiger / lynx / whatever!" And THAT is what irritates the Hell off of me. Read on the next 5 points, which are really just a ridiculously stretched to the point of breaking "SHUT THE FUCK UP!"

#1 There is a consistent tendency in people to like prey animals better than predators. You don't think so? (Because, for example, you're thinking of how beautiful a tiger is or how majestic a lion is with his mane.) But imagine you're watching a group of lionesses attacking an antelope or a bison or worse - a cute little zebra baby, aww what a shame. Would you rather sympathize with the lionesses should they fail that attack or with their prey should they succeed? I'm guessing most people will sympathize with the victim a lot more. Likewise, the predators are easily seen as the bad guys because it is in their nature to kill - but that is utterly unfair. Technically, all organisms kill, in every day of their life. This is how life works - one life form takes life and/or living space away from another - because there is simply nowhere else to get it from. Predators have evolved into taking life away from other animals - which doesn't make them in any way worse than their prey, it is a way of life like any other. But the truth is, by doing so they actually benefit their prey too - not the individual they kill, obviously, but the population it belonged to. First, because they always kill the old and sick first (because it's easier, it requires less energy and is therefore vastly more preferrable) - thus leaving the population in a generally better condition; second, because by reducing the number of their prey predators prevent overpopulation which on its own is a certain way into an ecological disaster. This way they actually don't harm the species they hunt - they help them achieve balance with the environment. That makes them a corner stone of prosperity for the ecosystems they are part of and that alone is a good enough reason to respect them.

#2 Generally, the life of predators is much more uncertain and difficult - even if it may not seem so to you. You're probably thinking about the deer in the woods, how timid they are because at every moment someone might attack, kill and eat them. Their survival, however, is much easier and often practically guaranteed - simply because their food is all over the place. For predators, things are more complicated. If you want to live, you must eat, if you want to eat, you must hunt. This isn't your huntsman uncle's hobby, where if he fails he simply goes home and cooks dinner with something he got from the supermarket. This is real life - if you fail in your hunt, you and your cubs will go starving. And while you probably think that's fine, predators still succeed in their hunt a lot of the time, this is not really the truth. Most Nature-orientated documentary films tend to focus largely on the hunting success of predators. This leaves a false impression in many people that predators succeed in their hunt a lot. No, they don't. In fact, most of them only succeed in one out of several hunts, at best. Every failed hunt however is still a lot of energy lost because you don't hunt by grazing, you hunt by running at the top of your speed. Ask yourselves how many times can you do that for before you collapse - and all that for a single meal, without having anything to eat in between. Then ask yourselves how long you would survive if this is your only way to obtain food. Furthermore, in many cases there is another problem with hunting as well - it is actually dangerous. Most prey animals aren't really completely defenceless. They have horns, hooves on powerful legs, they can impale their attacker or shatter its skull with a kick. If that happens, the injured predator cannot go to the hospital and receive care. In Nature, serious injuries more often than not mean death. This is what their every day looks like - a matter of life and death, life or starvation, life or mortal injury, and they have no other option, no other way to survive.

#3 Now it comes to my own affinity towards the intelligent species over the less intelligent ones. This is very subjective and as such it's not a valid argument. However, I need to point out that, with few exceptions (like the horse and the elephant), generally predators are much smarter than the average prey animal. Intelligence can easily be your best bet in killing your prey. Often times the prey is actually faster than the predator and/or has more endurance in a run - which is logical because its survival depends directly on speed. If the predators cannot outrun it, they will obviously have to outwit it - by setting ambushes, by sneaking closer before the actual attack or by driving it into a trap. Many predators who hunt in packs rely on sophisticated strategy like when a couple of members of the pack scare the prey and chase it towards the rest who are waiting in ambush to attack. Marine predators like the orcas and dolphins use a whole set of amazing strategies and techniques in order to hunt fish or seals more easily - and they even constantly invent new ones. At least to me, their resourcefulness and imagination is very appealing and amazing. That of course, this is up to you.

#4 When you sympathize with the prey when it's being killed, you should take into consideration that there are a lot worse kinds of death - one of which, starvation, is what predators face if they fail in their hunt for too long. As mentioned in the earlier paragraph, most of the time they do fail which means that even in their best days their survival is never guaranteed for long. But what happens in their not-so-best days is that after they have failed over and over again for a while, their reserves of energy - which are limited to begin with - start to go depleted. With this their chances of success in hunting dramatically shrink. One point on they are virtually doomed because they simply don't have energy required for the hunt anymore. This however is still far from the moment of death. After that they continue to live for a given time, while their body literally eats itself from inside - something that, I assure you, is really not pleasant - until finally they are so weak they don't even have the strength to digest anymore. There is hardly a sight any more tragic than a once-majestic lion starving to death. Each time they succeed with a hunt this saves them from this cruel and ugly death. This is why each time they catch a prey I rejoice at their success.

#5 Nowadays, there are a lot of people who love Nature. More like, they believe they love Nature. In truth, the majority of them really love their own notion and image of Nature and not Nature as it really is. Before you feel offended by this, ask yourself how you picture Nature - as a beautiful, harmoneous world where all the creatures roam free, or as an uncertain, dangerous world where all creatures have to struggle for survival and each and every day of their life is a battle. In fact, most people who love Nature have a very idealistic image of it - to a great extent again because of the popular documentaries which more often than not show the milder side of things and avoid too much violence. Nature however is violent in each and every day, on every inch upon the Earth where there is life there is also a violent struggle for survival. Even the grasses you step on and perceive as entirely peaceful in fact wage endless wars among themselves, using raw strength and chemical weapons alike to suffocate or otherwise kill their neignbours and thus gain a little more living space under the Sun. That applies on every level, in every species, in every ecosystem, everywhere. Nature is a warfield, guys. Peace is but a strange illusion fabricated by mankind. I never said you have to like it - I only say that if you claim you love Nature you must be aware of that fact and respect it. Truth is, this omnipresent natural warfare is not a bad thing. It is how Nature and Life work and work best because this neverending warfare is the main powerful engine of evolution and thus the reason for the vast and marvelous variety of lifeforms on Earth we see now. None of the beautiful, amazing creatures of astonishing, almost supernatural abilities we know would have come into being without this incessant struggle for survival. It may be cruel in its ways, but it freaking works. So respect it and appreciate it, though violent it may be, because this is the best way it can be.

Finally, I must say that too. In the majority of people, their attitude towards predators is the typical one for a prey animal. No wonder. After all, before they tore themselves off of Mother Nature humans were prey animals. Apparently their mindset hasn't changed much since then. However, still retaining that kind of attitude, given what the world is like now, is, very mildly said, hypocritical and hideously shameless. You are not being eaten by predators anymore. In fact, you have become the most devastating predator on this planet - one which not only kills, but also destroys entire ecosystems, and does it not only for food, but for every other possible reason, including for fun. No other species kills nearly as many living organisms as humans do, every fucking day. No living species kills as many living beings per caput, either. Blaming predators for killing is one thing. But then you should start from blaming yourselves.

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Warning: potentially dangerous, politically incorrect and morally relentless ideas ahead. Oh yes, and cussing

Hellooooooooo my friends. As some of you certainly noticed, I upload a comic of my own making every now and then, featuring none other but my own very humble (NOT) and otherwise awesome and adorable self X3 At some point I thought: what better occasion (i.e. excuse) to spam you guys with some of my contemplations over things. I call it "misceptions" (rather lame title, but eh) and you understand that in any way you want.

This is not really part of the The Azure Woes comic series. It just shamelessly uses it as means to spread the vile and viciously virulent spores of my intellectual evilness

So what is this really about.
I happen to be a bizarre individual who likes to ponder over things he could simply pass by (as decent normal people do, but I am neither). I guess I have way too much time at my disposal. Sometimes I go into a problem and analyze it (because too much free time as specified already), occasionally I reach conclusions which I am arrogant enough to believe are worth sharing with others. Or quite honestly, sometimes the ideas and attitude others demonstrate, mildly said, irritate me so I'm itching to show them just how much they are wrong in my eyes. Indeed, I've been literally itching to shout to the world: "You're damn wrong with that!" ....alright, not quite literally, but in any case enough to make me draw a freaking comic. My innate laziness so totally busted oO The n-point form of doing that is convenient and a strategic move. People like reading stuff like "10 things you'll disagree with" or "7 ways to enlarge your boobs". Well, take that as my self-made "5 things you might disagree with but that won't really quite stop me from saying".
Oh yes, feel free to discuss if you want. But be warned, I'm not prone to change my views. I am not tolerant for quarrels either.

First, I'll address Nature. Because it's my field, so to speak. Nature and more precisely, the neverending struggle between predators and prey. Everybody knows how that works, right: the predator chases the prey, catches it, kills it and eats it. Somewhere around the "catches it" and "kills it" points most people go off: "Oh nooooooooo! Poor calf / antelope / deer / rabbit / whatever, got murdered by the big bad wolf / lion / tiger / lynx / whatever!" And THAT is what irritates the Hell off of me. Read on the next 5 points, which are really just a ridiculously stretched to the point of breaking "SHUT THE FUCK UP!"

#1 There is a consistent tendency in people to like prey animals better than predators. You don't think so? (Because, for example, you're thinking of how beautiful a tiger is or how majestic a lion is with his mane.) But imagine you're watching a group of lionesses attacking an antelope or a bison or worse - a cute little zebra baby, aww what a shame. Would you rather sympathize with the lionesses should they fail that attack or with their prey should they succeed? I'm guessing most people will sympathize with the victim a lot more. Likewise, the predators are easily seen as the bad guys because it is in their nature to kill - but that is utterly unfair. Technically, all organisms kill, in every day of their life. This is how life works - one life form takes life and/or living space away from another - because there is simply nowhere else to get it from. Predators have evolved into taking life away from other animals - which doesn't make them in any way worse than their prey, it is a way of life like any other. But the truth is, by doing so they actually benefit their prey too - not the individual they kill, obviously, but the population it belonged to. First, because they always kill the old and sick first (because it's easier, it requires less energy and is therefore vastly more preferrable) - thus leaving the population in a generally better condition; second, because by reducing the number of their prey predators prevent overpopulation which on its own is a certain way into an ecological disaster. This way they actually don't harm the species they hunt - they help them achieve balance with the environment. That makes them a corner stone of prosperity for the ecosystems they are part of and that alone is a good enough reason to respect them.

#2 Generally, the life of predators is much more uncertain and difficult - even if it may not seem so to you. You're probably thinking about the deer in the woods, how timid they are because at every moment someone might attack, kill and eat them. Their survival, however, is much easier and often practically guaranteed - simply because their food is all over the place. For predators, things are more complicated. If you want to live, you must eat, if you want to eat, you must hunt. This isn't your huntsman uncle's hobby, where if he fails he simply goes home and cooks dinner with something he got from the supermarket. This is real life - if you fail in your hunt, you and your cubs will go starving. And while you probably think that's fine, predators still succeed in their hunt a lot of the time, this is not really the truth. Most Nature-orientated documentary films tend to focus largely on the hunting success of predators. This leaves a false impression in many people that predators succeed in their hunt a lot. No, they don't. In fact, most of them only succeed in one out of several hunts, at best. Every failed hunt however is still a lot of energy lost because you don't hunt by grazing, you hunt by running at the top of your speed. Ask yourselves how many times can you do that for before you collapse - and all that for a single meal, without having anything to eat in between. Then ask yourselves how long you would survive if this is your only way to obtain food. Furthermore, in many cases there is another problem with hunting as well - it is actually dangerous. Most prey animals aren't really completely defenceless. They have horns, hooves on powerful legs, they can impale their attacker or shatter its skull with a kick. If that happens, the injured predator cannot go to the hospital and receive care. In Nature, serious injuries more often than not mean death. This is what their every day looks like - a matter of life and death, life or starvation, life or mortal injury, and they have no other option, no other way to survive.

#3 Now it comes to my own affinity towards the intelligent species over the less intelligent ones. This is very subjective and as such it's not a valid argument. However, I need to point out that, with few exceptions (like the horse and the elephant), generally predators are much smarter than the average prey animal. Intelligence can easily be your best bet in killing your prey. Often times the prey is actually faster than the predator and/or has more endurance in a run - which is logical because its survival depends directly on speed. If the predators cannot outrun it, they will obviously have to outwit it - by setting ambushes, by sneaking closer before the actual attack or by driving it into a trap. Many predators who hunt in packs rely on sophisticated strategy like when a couple of members of the pack scare the prey and chase it towards the rest who are waiting in ambush to attack. Marine predators like the orcas and dolphins use a whole set of amazing strategies and techniques in order to hunt fish or seals more easily - and they even constantly invent new ones. At least to me, their resourcefulness and imagination is very appealing and amazing. That of course, this is up to you.

#4 When you sympathize with the prey when it's being killed, you should take into consideration that there are a lot worse kinds of death - one of which, starvation, is what predators face if they fail in their hunt for too long. As mentioned in the earlier paragraph, most of the time they do fail which means that even in their best days their survival is never guaranteed for long. But what happens in their not-so-best days is that after they have failed over and over again for a while, their reserves of energy - which are limited to begin with - start to go depleted. With this their chances of success in hunting dramatically shrink. One point on they are virtually doomed because they simply don't have energy required for the hunt anymore. This however is still far from the moment of death. After that they continue to live for a given time, while their body literally eats itself from inside - something that, I assure you, is really not pleasant - until finally they are so weak they don't even have the strength to digest anymore. There is hardly a sight any more tragic than a once-majestic lion starving to death. Each time they succeed with a hunt this saves them from this cruel and ugly death. This is why each time they catch a prey I rejoice at their success.

#5 Nowadays, there are a lot of people who love Nature. More like, they believe they love Nature. In truth, the majority of them really love their own notion and image of Nature and not Nature as it really is. Before you feel offended by this, ask yourself how you picture Nature - as a beautiful, harmoneous world where all the creatures roam free, or as an uncertain, dangerous world where all creatures have to struggle for survival and each and every day of their life is a battle. In fact, most people who love Nature have a very idealistic image of it - to a great extent again because of the popular documentaries which more often than not show the milder side of things and avoid too much violence. Nature however is violent in each and every day, on every inch upon the Earth where there is life there is also a violent struggle for survival. Even the grasses you step on and perceive as entirely peaceful in fact wage endless wars among themselves, using raw strength and chemical weapons alike to suffocate or otherwise kill their neignbours and thus gain a little more living space under the Sun. That applies on every level, in every species, in every ecosystem, everywhere. Nature is a warfield, guys. Peace is but a strange illusion fabricated by mankind. I never said you have to like it - I only say that if you claim you love Nature you must be aware of that fact and respect it. Truth is, this omnipresent natural warfare is not a bad thing. It is how Nature and Life work and work best because this neverending warfare is the main powerful engine of evolution and thus the reason for the vast and marvelous variety of lifeforms on Earth we see now. None of the beautiful, amazing creatures of astonishing, almost supernatural abilities we know would have come into being without this incessant struggle for survival. It may be cruel in its ways, but it freaking works. So respect it and appreciate it, though violent it may be, because this is the best way it can be.

Finally, I must say that too. In the majority of people, their attitude towards predators is the typical one for a prey animal. No wonder. After all, before they tore themselves off of Mother Nature humans were prey animals. Apparently their mindset hasn't changed much since then. However, still retaining that kind of attitude, given what the world is like now, is, very mildly said, hypocritical and hideously shameless. You are not being eaten by predators anymore. In fact, you have become the most devastating predator on this planet - one which not only kills, but also destroys entire ecosystems, and does it not only for food, but for every other possible reason, including for fun. No other species kills nearly as many living organisms as humans do, every fucking day. No living species kills as many living beings per caput, either. Blaming predators for killing is one thing. But then you should start from blaming yourselves.