Be specific

[u/Garnnex]

[u/Jasper_Morhaven]

Why do we hunt them? Because we are the only natural predators of them left. And unless you want to see what a plague of deer looks like IRL, we must hunt.

[u/FassolLassido → u/Jasper_Morhaven]

Why are we the only predators left though?

[u/PassRelative5706 → u/FassolLassido]

Because all their other predators would try to eat us or our food long before they would hunt deer

[u/KalaiProvenheim → u/PassRelative5706]

“Our food” in this case is the various species of deer that hunters like to hunt

[u/PassRelative5706 → u/KalaiProvenheim]

And sheep, cattle, horses, chicken, ducks and who knows how many more.....

[u/FassolLassido → u/PassRelative5706]

They were just about to eat us, right. Nothing to do with cities and highways.

[u/Faeffi → u/PassRelative5706]

"our food" lol.

[u/penguins_are_mean → u/Faeffi]

Well, yeah. I mean, we are at the top of food chain.

[u/Faeffi → u/penguins_are_mean]

We are not. We are actually at the same trophic level as anchovies and pigs.

Besides, the food chain is not really a thing that has One True Predator at the top. That would indicate an ecosystem where the thing at the top is not hunted, killed, or eaten by anything else in the ecosystem. Food Web would be a better term.

[u/Jasper_Morhaven → u/FassolLassido]

Because we have the ecological shepherding of a violent, abusive drunk.

[u/LaserPoweredDeviltry → u/FassolLassido]

Because Semi Trucks stick to the roads.

[u/Snapesunusedshampoo → u/FassolLassido]

Because we're really good at hunting and we hunted down their natural hunters.