Animals can't be evil. They're amoral. They don't philosophize, they don't feel guilt; they don't comprehend life in the same way that we do. Both cruelty and mercy are human constructs. All animals can do is try to guarantee survival for themselves and their offspring. They've all evolved into a specific niche, and these behaviors you deride are just instincts that have successfully ensured the survival of their ancestors, and so were passed on. If you can't handle the idea that animals in general sometimes kill to survive, get a plant
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Nature is way way more vicious than most people think or believe. Rape, infanticide, necrophilia, cannibalism, etc. Are not entirely uncommon out in nature. It's a vicious race for survival and procreation and anything goes. Raccoons are the same.
And, in particular, the animals that tend to give effective resistance to the humans' program of "hey I'm gonna trap / shoot / poison you or destroy your home because you're inconveniencing me", tend to get demonized as these crazy murder beasts when they'd probably be much happier living in the woods and doing their thing.
Human farmer eating chickens: Look, he went back to the land, so charming
Raccoon eating farmer's chickens: HE IS THE DEVIL
Animals do not exist in a moral universe. Humans do. And yet, somehow, when a conflict between them escalates, the animals are always the ones being psychopaths.
If they weren't up to no good, why would they wear masks?
No but seriously they will straight-up murder chickens for the fun of feeling the hens' necks snap under their fingers.
Maybe stop anthropomorphizing animals with human concepts like morality and just accept them for as they are?
No . why should i ? I can understand they are what they are but that doesn't mean i have to like or accept them i am free to dislike them .
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What the others said, animals aren't "evil". But I'm curious now, what did hamsters do?
Eat their own kids
Eat their young when they are in a confined space that appears to not support the population.
In a sense, we make them eat their young by putting them in cages and breeding them.
But it is behavior learned in the wild - keep alive only the babies you can actually support, or else everyone dies.
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Like many other mammels male raccoon will kill offspring of other males to speed up the mating availibility of female raccoons.
Fuck, this one did it for me .
I think it's better to not look at it as good and evil but as joy and pain.
There will always be both joy and pain in the world. And there isn't even a 'balance' between the two. Some experience more pain than joy. Some, more joy than pain.
Part of the trick is to learn to focus on the joy. The pain will be there and requires acknowledgment, not attention.
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Nature gets brutal sometimes. One of my dogs once killed another dog, but she's always been a total sweetheart to me.
Raccoons are cute, curious, critters with thumbs. They like to wash their food. They're adorable!
But they are also wild creatures that will bite when scared and can carry dangerous diseases.
Nature gets brutal.
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Animals lack morality. Raccoons would hunt humans for fun and food if they were capable.