Surely it has a plan to kill, driven by hunger. The behaviour exhibited by non-human animals can be described as the same as by human animals.
All creatures (including humans) that consume food are driven by hunger and thirst.....a forced form of survival without which we would certainly die. But wild animals are those who consume prey and are skilled hunters, never taking more than they need. Not all wild animals are hunters though....many of the world's largest and most powerful animals are herbivores. They satisfy their hunger by foraging for vegetation. Grass, as well as fruits are the food choice of many species of animals. Who or what dictates their diet then?
How do you know these things about the inner workings of other species? You don't, you are speculating. All such "reasons" are mere speculation.
Are not your own suggestions mere speculation? I guess we just go by what appeals to us, since no one knows these thing for sure. If animals could speak our language, then we would have a better idea.....wouldn't we?
The only difference is you are sure of the reasons in other humans because YOU are a human, whereas with non -human animals you are speculating across to another species. For some reason, you want to think a dog acting on past experience is different from a human acting on past experience.
There is a great gulf between humans and even the greatest of the apes....a gulf that scientists cannot begin to explain. Any other animal let loose on this earth would never wreak the kind of havoc that humans have created. Our intellect and ability to plan and create a future event through our unique faculty of imagination and ability to formulate a future outcome, is not demonstrated by any other creature on earth.
Humans have programmed behaviours.
I never said they didn't. But our activities are not all due to instinct. Instinct does not require planning....it happens as a natural consequence to internal or external stimuli for the most part. When we plan to do something, we have already considered the possible outcomes.....animals cannot do that consciously.
Humans have instincts and programmed DNA too. We are just another Great Ape.
You may believe that we are related to apes, but I am very sure that we just had the same Creator and that we are made from the same materials, using a basically tried and tested framework. Its our intellectual superiority and our moral qualities that set us apart. Part of instinctive human behavior is spirituality and worship....not seen in any other species. Who can explain that?
If two different species are exhibiting the same behaviour (eg hunting a deer) it is not rational based on the behaviour, to ascribe the lion and the human differing reasons.
That only works if you see us as just a more advanced animal.....I don't see that at all. I see humans as a distinct and separate creation, last on the scene and appointed as a caretaker and zookeeper by the Creator....unfortunately, our superiority went to our heads and we divorced ourselves from our Creator thinking that we didn't need him.
Humans have proved beyond a shadow of doubt that they are hopeless without guidance from their Creator. Look at the state of the world at present....now ask yourself how superior we can really claim to be when we have created monsters that we cannot control? I believe that the virus that is now sweeping the world is a product of human engineering and that it will continue to bankrupt the world and bring it to its knees. This is also foretold in the prophesies....that people will throw their silver and gold into the streets because it will be worthless. These are extreme times but not unexpected for those who believe in the Bible.
These are the times that the Bible foretold thousands of years ago.....everything is happening exactly as the Bible said it would....so that is why I feel so strongly about our creation as coming directly from God and for the purpose that he stated at our beginning. I believe that there is a reason for everything.
Death is not the worst thing that can happen to us....in fact for some it is a welcome relief from the horrible things that they see taking place in country after country....with no hope of it getting any better. When was the last time you heard any good news? That is what the word "gospel" means....and it offers people a lifeline out of this world system of failed human government that we believe God is about to destroy, and replace with the government we were meant to have from the beginning....God's Kingdom. (Daniel 2:44)
You may have a different take on things....