By that logic - every living being on the planet is - or can be prey for something else - and I am not disagreeing with that.
But that 5,000 foot view of mine is more related to the original blog author using predator/prey as an analogy - it breaks down quickly when applied to humans.
Nice comment! (I used to hunt - but not as intimately as your experience - you have a very skilled and serious background)
> You're looking at the problem from the 5,000 foot view.
As they should be. Because the analogy between wolves and Gypsies on the level of predator-prey is clearly completely broken (Gypsies are not predators and the majority population is not prey). And the only level where it works is the irrational fear far beyond their real threat that both wolves and Gypsies instill in some members of the society. Which has lead to near extinction of wolves - damaging ecosystems that depend on them - and (among other things) a genocide of Gypsies.
I have "experienced" Roma people including having lived close to a large Roma group (same street), going to school with them etc and it's a complete nonsense to blame and persecute the whole ethnic group. In general, in the year 2026 we should know better than to assign collective guilt. It always creates more issues than it purports to solve.
If you really want to understand an issue in depth, don't use propaganda videos as education.
I never said they were collectively guilty. that was on you. You assigned them all as guilty.
> and it's a complete nonsense to blame and persecute the whole ethnic group
Cultures exist in ethnic groups, I don't know what to say. If you don't believe this, you're being intentionally obstuse.
> In general, in the year 2026 we should know better than to assign collective guilt.
Again, that was you.
> If you really want to understand an issue in depth.
I only get to see what I'm presented. I don't even know how to identify what they look like. They do appear to look like every day people in the youtube videos. They usually speak the language, but people point them out as being a problem.
That is not a "me" problem, that is a PR problem. Now that I think about it, i don't think I've ever seen a positive video about gypsies on the net.
Prey is whatever is at risk of being consumed. I have made no attempt at classifying wolves behavior in my comment.
Edit: I do take the prey/predator relationship very seriously, I wrote about what I do here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46462101