The animal kingdom is a very wild one. There, the rule is straightforward: kill or be killed. The battle is always between the predators and the prey. And on regular occasions, a predator becomes prey to a bigger, more sadistic predator. It's either you toughen up, become incredibly smart or end up as dinner in the belly of a beast.
Funnily enough, this is how the human world is, too. Predators and prey everywhere. Humans prey upon themselves and upon animals to no end. The dominance is staggering, especially when it comes to how we prey upon animals.
On one good afternoon, I was watching one of these alien movies, and thoughts kept flashing through my mind. In science fiction, aliens have been continuously touted to be bigger, faster, stronger and more technologically advanced than humans. Though these movies always end with humans finding a way to get rid of them - which is the lie we want to believe, anyway - it is plausible to assume that if aliens are actually out there with all the characteristics they've been portrayed with in movies, the human race is doomed.
Now, imagine we were raided by thousands of aliens from Krypton who have the same abilities as Superman: fast, strong, able to listen to things from afar, in addition to laser shooting off their eyes. Then we are done for. Now, once again, imagine being captured by these aliens, taken to their world/kingdom. In there, they could turn humans into slaves, and we'd have no answer because they're considerably ahead of us. Some of them would be perverted too and want to see humans displayed as objects of entertainment or pleasure. If that happens, will the human race be pleased?
Considering how proud we are, humans won't be pleased to be displaced from their homes and turned into objects of pleasure and entertainment to be displayed at the city square for their younglings to learn from. If we won't be pleased, why should the animals be? Because this is exactly what we are doing to animals right now. Why are we taking animals away from their natural habitat and turning them into pets against their own wishes? Why would we capture a lion who is probably the head of a pride, drag him to a zoo for entertainment while the cubs and lionesses he was meant to protect are scattered in the wild looking for a way to survive?
Before the coming of Homo Sapiens, the world always had animals. Some went extinct because they couldn't evolve. Some died out because of constantly changing environments. Despite that, we've continued to have animals in the wild where they belong, ploughing through life. Why do we suddenly believe we can provide a better life for a lion whose ability is best suited to the wild by domesticating it? If you've been to the zoo, you would see how unhappy some of those animals are. Some zoos try to mimic their natural environment by providing trees and so on. Who are we fooling?
In the end, humans are just flat-track bullies and hypocrites preying on the animals and pretending to be good. You see how some people protect dogs and cats and even sue people for animal cruelty. Yet these same people eat chickens, pork and beef. What's the criteria for determining the animal that deserves to be pampered and the one that should be slaughtered for food? Why can't we just leave these animals alone to thrive in their natural habitat? Seriously, I'm out.
[Source](https://pixabay.com/photos/tiger-swamp-big-cat-wild-cat-2535888/)
