9k:RD/ To hunt is to destroy (Q52,23)

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To hunt is to destroy
/ Predation is destruction / Predation is an act of destruction / Predation is an act of violence / Speaking literally, for a given definition of violence as the destruction of a living animal, predation is an act of actively destroying a living animal; this is not to imply any particular philosophical agenda or further conclusions that should be taken from this deduction within the scope of this proposition -> this is some important philosophical foundation to set down if you're going to discuss what political themes should or shouldn't have been put in Zootopia as well as what themes are currently in it.

how to classify this proposition.... I think when I have limited it as much as I have you can say this falls within ecology. it is a very literal material definition, without much political baggage.

wolf slaying lamb as Original Sin / lion slaying lamb as Original Sin / eating animals as forbidden fruit -> alternate version of book of Genesis that crops up frequently in fiction, sometimes quite literally as in Pitch haven mythos, sometimes much more figuratively in things like Zootopia or Kimba. runs narratively parallel to: Buddhist imagery of the existence of individuals being harmful