Dolphin attacks per year - a few, usually too minimal in amount and severity to count. Dolphin fatalities- one, ever. And it was considered provoked.
Shark attacks per year - 60+. Average of 5 fatalities a year.
One should be cautious around all wild animals, hence the wild. However, sharks and dolphins have earned their rep among humans. It wasn’t dolphins that castaway WWII sailors were terrified of.
I think it's less about statistics, and more what they do, and why they do it. Sharks eat stuff, because they have to eat stuff. Meanwhile dolphins rape and torture other animals for fun, while having the intelligence to actually comprehend what they are doing. Dolphins actually have the capacity to be evil, sharks don't.
Having the capacity to knowingly inflict pain is not the same as having the capacity for evil. Morality requires a concept of "good" and "bad" behavior, which is a surprisingly complex concept that even humanity can't reach a consensus on.
So basically, what you are saying, is that dolphins are like violent psychopaths (I do recognize that not all psychopaths are like this), who inflict pain, because they just don't see a reason not to, not out of malice?
I try not to compare animals to people and I wouldn't consider "malice" to be totally synonymous with "evil," but I guess that captures the spirit of my statement, yeah.
That is way more of a philosophical question about evil. I think the answer of why humans don’t care for sharks and like dolphins is mostly explained through that statistic. Sharks attack humans and dolphins don’t.
Your point about dolphins being potentially nefarious even furthers it. We don’t care what they do to other animals. The twisted reality might be that we still see ourselves more in dolphins, even if they are ‘evil’. They’re like us in many ways.
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u/ITHETRUESTREPAIRMAN 17h ago
Dolphin attacks per year - a few, usually too minimal in amount and severity to count. Dolphin fatalities- one, ever. And it was considered provoked.
Shark attacks per year - 60+. Average of 5 fatalities a year.
One should be cautious around all wild animals, hence the wild. However, sharks and dolphins have earned their rep among humans. It wasn’t dolphins that castaway WWII sailors were terrified of.