Orwell wrote:
Also, Orcas and other species of dolphin kill for fun, even when they aren't hungry. And chimps are some seriously violent creatures- they make humans look downright peaceful.
And to be fair, it's not just the animal kingdom. Autotrophs (algae mostly) caused a mass extinction when they first began to photosynthesize and polluted the early atmosphere with highly corrosive oxygen. Later plants created an ice age because they used up too much of the atmospheric CO2 and negated the greenhouse effect.
So yeah, there seem to be adequate grounds for hating living things in general, at least if we go by PunkyKat's criterion of needless killing and destruction of ecosystems.
The bonobo chimps are far more peaceful in all measurements. I think it is due to their sexual, emotional nature. The common chimp is the warrior to Thee worse degree of us apes
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As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
-Pythagoras