Consider this: if you encountered a lamprey, or any other beast for that matter, in its own environment, and it stood to gain anything for itself from your pain, do you think said beast would stop to consider the humanitarian nature, or its animal equivalent, of the act before promptly gutting you and moving on without a second thought?
I'm not saying mindless cruelty to animals is in any way condonable, but our only natural defense against our predators is our brain. It makes sense that we should use it. Not to would amount to opting out of evolution, in which case we deserve to be extinct.
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I'm not saying mindless cruelty to animals is in any way condonable, but our only natural defense against our predators is our brain. It makes sense that we should use it. Not to would amount to opting out of evolution, in which case we deserve to be extinct.