Ah, sorry, I misunderstood.
I mean if it's a fun hobby of yours, go for it. But you know the history of this stuff as well as I do. It comes with a lot of baggage and people are not going to respond well to it. The group of people that will respond well to it, let's just say, I don't think you want to keep their company. Unless of course you are racist, in which case, you'd be fine.
Sorry, I think I got my wires crossed between your post and someone else's. You were not claiming the person killing the seagull was a psychopath.
No, I don't take it personally and I would agree with you if you're asserting these differences are cultural. Unless you're saying this is genetic?
Edit: cultural or a result of societal pressure. I don't mean to imply that particular cultures are bad.
Between person to person. Yeah that's fine. But comparing population to population is dangerous. Once you know, what do you do with that information?
Historically, this line of thinking has never worked out very well. And as time goes on, who cares, we'll all breed together anyway.
Fascinating! So what about exterminators killing bugs? Does the size of the creature matter?
True, but there was a layer of law below it. So there was at least some documented consistent process for which power was used for the most part. Now it's pretty much anything goes.
Okay well if it's cultural then culture can be changed. So if you're an easterner, you need to be careful that you don't end up like westerners. The ideological plague that hit westerners can get easterners as well.
At the end there, It kind of seemed like you were heading back towards the race argument.
What about a person who works in a meat processing plant? Killing hundreds of chickens a day. Are they a psychopath?
Yep, it's now pure power. Power dictates what happens and what doesn't.
So you're saying it's a cultural issue. Would you agree then that if easterners were to get culture that would allow them to justify colonization and murder, they would do the same things as westerners?
So your argument is that it isn't a human thing and easterners are superior to westerners? Would that be a race thing?
What are you using for pest categorization? Why are you okay with a seagull stealing your chip and not a rat?