Speaking of cruelty, naked power and Darwinism, you might have seen killer whales [orca in the politically-correct parlance of today], on a nature documentary, which had been feeding on baby seals, and any else they caught, which were trying to get used to the sea and being alive.
A couple of the whales had a baby seal which they flipped on their tails, up into the air, like a basketball. Like a cat playing with a mouse. After they tired of their game, one of them pushed it back to shore, like a seal with a ball on its nose, and the baby ran back up onto the beach, apparently none the worse for wear. I suppose the whales had had enough to eat.
What a story that baby seal had to tell its friends and mother. But what were the whales thinking? They obviously weren't too worried about the baby's fear or pain it might have been experiencing, so it wasn't kindness. Curiosity? "Let's push it back onto shore and see what it does." Maintain the food supply? "Waste not, want not, my mother always taught me". Incipient kindness or guilt? "Hey, you know, it must be a bummer to be that baby seal. Maybe we should take it back to its mother."
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