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Would you mind rephrasing your comment, as currently I really don't understand what you're trying to say at all...

edit: I originally wrote out a long comment about exactly why your comment doesn't make sense to me, but after posting it I felt it was ridiculously long for its purpose, so if you want to waste time reading it you can find it here - https://pastebin.com/Y11P8ETs - but I think asking you to explain what you meant more clearly is enough for here :)

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GP's comment reads reasonably clear to me: humans fearing orcas might eat them are about as rational as the cat visiting GP's garden, which also seems to be convinced GP wants to harm rather than feed it.

Ah, OK that does now make sense to me, thanks.

I think I didn't manage to see that meaning because the comment it was replying to had nothing to do with humans thinking orcas want to eat them, it was about orcas bringing food (like dead fish) to give to the humans. So more like a pet cat bringing a dead mouse to its owner than a cat in the garden fearing that the human wants to eat it?

For what it's worth I was lost too. Even with the explanation it took a few minutes to fully parse.

At best, it is missing a verb. This is compounded by it's poor grammar (or poor style) and the fact that it is a non-sequitor to the comment it replied to. Someone can get reasonably lost reading it.

ETA: swores mentions this in their pastebin

People do, or have eaten cats, mainly when they’re starving. I’m not sure I’d want to be in the water with a starving Orca.

I’d be fine in the water near an orca in the wild as long as there aren’t any seals around. There is one alleged documented attack by non-captive orcas on humans and that guy claims he was near seals at the time.

I’d probably be nervous if I was sailing on the Atlantic Iberian coast and saw orcas, they’ve been ramming and pushing rudders and fucking around with sailboats, no thanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_orca_attacks

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