I've heard some animal rights activists and vegans say animals love us, and they just want to be our friends. They're sweet, and they would never harm us. Well, to summarize, the human animal has compassion and kindness. I am not saying other animals don't. But humans have much more of it. And we can be more than the sum of our parts, more than what nature made us. But when you PETA/vegan folks say animals are our friends and they are kind hearted and sweet. Bullsh*t. They are evil. Or some of them are. They'd eat you, some of them, if they had a chance. Yes they would. Animals deserve compassion and kindness no matter how evil they are, the same way humans do. But don't bullcrap us into believing they're noble and sweet and just want to be our friends. No they don't.
Just because something wants to eat you doesn't make them evil. They have no bad intent, they're just hungry and you're their lunch order. Like if you were starving and some cute little squirrel comes up to you to make friends. Then you kill it and eat it to survive. Are you now evil? Now if you just torture the squirrel for "fun" then you are evil. The only evil things I've ever noticed were human. To equate evil with anything is a Christian thing. Evil = dEvil, a Christian concept. Why is it so hard for people to look beyond their religious filters? Imagine a world free of religion and religious bias? John Lennon imagined it. So can anyone! 250 mics is all it takes....
The main problem are those elephants in circuses. They are docile and kind by nature. But like lions, if you want them to perform you have to show them who's boss. But they don't respond the same way. Lions have aggressive, even violent alpha males. Elephants often have females lead the herd. Actually, and don't get this wrong, but a lion would think his alpha male doesn't love him if he wasn't violent and aggressive with him. But lions are dangerous. And often attack and seriously harm their trainer. Especially when he turns his back on him, like he sometimes has to as he is performing for the audience. But elephants in circuses is very inhumane, and unnatural for them. Lions are mistreated in circuses too, though repond to it differently. But they are dangerous and often attack their trainer. Circuses are fine. They just shouldn't have animal shows in them.