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I can't speak for spiders but there are plenty of animals that do horrible things for reasons other than eating and surviving. Seals come to mind (with what they do to penguins). Also cats.

At the very least, mammals will kill for sport and for status. The biggest difference with humans is scale.



> we do understand what we’re doing and choose to do it anyways

Seems like you glossed right over the most important part of their comment.




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