You know people are going crazy when they start claiming that a baby polar bear should be killed rather than fed by humans. It's crazy, it's over the top, it's like buying star wars sheets just because they are cool.
Why?
Here's three reasons just o
ff the top of my head:
- This Polar Bear was not born in the wild, or in any kind of natural habitat. He was born in a zoo in Berlin, to a mother bear who was born in a zoo. No one is doing further damage to the balance of nature for goodness sake.
- Polar Bears are endangered.
- He's already here.
As a caveat: Yes, I was the kid who rescued eggs from fallen nests and tried to hatch them, I once rescued a nest of baby sparrows when my friend Linda's dad tossed them out of his Martin house, calling them invaders. They didn't survive, despite being given bread dipped in milk, and smashed bugs, they all died one by one by one. During different periods of my life, it seemed every stray damaged creature on four legs found me and I did my best to help them survive. Thankfully, this time seems to have passed, and while I have collected more pets than I should have, caring for those creatures taught me something valuable. I learned how to care better for myself and I learned that there is a fundamental instinct to help a creature in need live and thrive. This is part of who we are and when we pretend that we should just walk on by and leave it suffering, it hurts us as much as it hurts them, quite possibly it hurts us more.
All I know is that if anyone tries to kill little Knut, I'll be heading to Berlin to kick some animal activist butt.
ff the top of my head:
1 Comments:
Hang on a second, animal activists think this animal would be better off dead than in a zoo? Sometimes animal rights activists are like extreme politicians who are so far to one side of the political spectrum that they have practically wrapped back around to the other side.
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