That relies on absolving other animals of responsibility for their behaviors because they don't have higher order thought, no? Animals can be pretty violent to even their own species.
edit: Chewing on this a little more, this viewpoint almost feels like the dual of a common justification that people drunk on religion use to justify the killing of other human beings - "animals kill each other so it's natural behavior, and God sorts us all out in the afterlife"
In The Princess and the Frog, Tiana was denied the property she wanted to purchase by the Harvey Brothers (real estate agents) due to racial and socioeconomic discrimination.
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