mysteryteacup:

Space Orcs and the Myth of Harmless Prey Animals

Human, talking to Alien about a bully: So, what you’re never going to fight back?

Alien: I am of a prey species, we are not capable of fighting back.

Human: So, what? You’d just stand there and let something eat you??

Alien, flapping its flipticles in helpless anxiety: What else can we do? We are not born with the ability to do harm. We are plant-eaters.

Human: What’s that got to with it? The most dangerous animal on Earth is a herbivore and it’s a bulletproof tank of pure bloodlust.

2nd Human, who was listening in: Also most herbivores can and will eat meat if they get the chance to scavange on smaller corpses.