I don’t think a beastly hunger is an excuse for the murderous actions of one who clearly has a degree of reason… some people IRL have irrational and insatiable “hungers” for all sorts of things, and we have the moral high ground for holding them accountable if it leads them down evil paths.
@@peaceribbon8322 Yeah but he isnt human, and he sometimes blacks out, and his instincts take over where he consumes people, he can't really control it unlike actual people who can, especially because he has to eat others to continue his own existence, you wouldn't call a lion a murderer for eating a lamb would you?
@@weepingjSurely I would not call your example a murder but it’s a total non-sequitur. If a human dies to an animal we don’t just throw our hands up and say “poor baby can’t control its instincts”. It’s existence is demonstrably beyond our ability to control and thus we solve the issue permanently. Reason implies dignity that normal animals simply don’t have, blessed with greater worth and saddled with more responsibility. Sure I guess we can talk about lions being amoral but Merkava does have reason as I stated earlier, and thus he bears responsibility for times he does eat people of his own volition.