Dumb humans survive and are taken care of, dumb octopi dont survive. Most animals dont have the luxury of keeping every mutation and variation viable for survival.

We’re going on an adventure

Did you know that the correct pluralization is octopuses or octopoda, not octopi? This is because the -pus ending in octopus to es from the Greek word for foot, not prom latin.

They literally couldn't be worse than what we've got

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c98qnyLLTPg

Apologies for the ear bleeding voice over. But it is a cool video showing an octopus opening a jar.

And especially should not be farmed or eaten alive for clicks on youtube. We have made significant progress as a society reducing the barbaric practice of eating shark-fin soup and other exotic animal products, and made great strides in ending torturing sea mammals in amusement parks. We have to add octopus to this list of things we now know better about.

Octopus have feelings and are higher animals with unique personalities and ways of experiencing the world. They are curious, they are intelligent, they dream and seem to show emotions in a variety of ways.

And our last common ancestor didn't even have a backbone. This fact alone should amaze us and give us hope for the greater universe - that we can share so much with something so very distant from us gives hope that if we ever do contact aliens, we might share more than we think.

But "dumb" animals are fine? We even torture them because we think they taste cool.

The octopus went back to it's tank after getting a snack. That's at least some indication the octopus likes living there.

You are assuming the octopus prefers living out in the wild where it could be eaten alive. Who are you to assume what an animal wants?

Are you currently living in some kind rectangular structure where you have easy access to regular meals? Why are you living in this way and assuming an octopus wouldn't also prefer this? There's nothing preventing you from leaving the rectangular structure you're currently living in and going out into the wilds and fending for yourself to survive. Why don't you do the thing you're assuming the octopus wants to do?

Every animal can react to their environment, including avoiding predators. Not all of them do it perfectly, but it is a basic survival skill for mobile life forms.

In the wild an octopus often hides in a tight space to protect itself and wanders out to feed, then returns to their safe location afterwards. They avoid predators while doing so. Lots of animals will be less active when predators are out and about, or will be active during times where it is more difficult for the predators to hunt.

Yes, an octopus is a very clever animal but really we should stop killing them because we are absolutely crushing their populations.

A lot of animals are capable of learning. More importantly they’re capable of feeling. They should not be exploited in the same way that octopi should not be exploited.

Quite right, they should be given badges and guns.

T. Ocellus is too cute