"Funny...This is considered almost holy work by farmers and ranchers. Kill off everything you can't eat. Kill off anything that eats what you eat. Kill off anything that doesn't feed what you eat."

"It is holy work, in Taker culture. The more competitors you destroy, the more humans you can bring into the world. and that makes it just about the holiest work there is. Once you exempt yourself from the law of limited competition, everything in the world except your food and the food of your food becomes an enemy to be exterminated."

..."any species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion."

[An example of this sick, normalized violence was described on Olyblog recently: http://olyblog.net/bombs-away#comments . The callous disregard for the experience of sentient creatures designated as "other," even to the point of characterizing the violence against them with frivolity and jokes, horrifies me. This is not an environment which is safe and loving. It is cruel and violent.]