RedDevil@84
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Don't think US will be allowing his extradition regardless of the backlash.
...wutThat to me just underlines how ludicrous the reaction to all this has been. The natural world is full of barbaric acts of unimaginable proportions. Lions not only kill each other on a regular basis, they slaughter their children too...yet somehow murdering this Cecil, this killing machine, is an unforgivable act of brutality.
Don't think US will be allowing his extradition regardless of the backlash.
Might arrest him if requested. But I doubt they would send him to Zimbabwe.I read the Justice Department would arrest him if requested.
Might arrest him if requested. But I doubt they would send him to Zimbabwe.
That to me just underlines how ludicrous the reaction to all this has been. The natural world is full of barbaric acts of unimaginable proportions. Lions not only kill each other on a regular basis, they slaughter their children too...yet somehow murdering this Cecil, this killing machine, is an unforgivable act of brutality.
I think it has something to do with anthropomorphism. The fact he's given a name and referred to in such a familiar tone was surely one of the hooks that drew people into the story and fuelled the outrage.
A few people in this thread arguing for the fun of it. It's cool, a great way to burn time.
Because a human with a hunting rifle and a bow and arrow will always be top of the food chain.If Cecil was so great, how come he is dead? Answer that tough guy.
Because a human with a hunting rifle and a bow and arrow will always be top of the food chain.
And because of this even the strongest will become the weakest.
Well let's hope you don't come back in the next life as a lion.Humans were intelligently designed to use tools. It's god's will that lions die.
Your figures there are just wrong, for a start, the cartoon graphic is in tonnes and not numbers so your analogy to numbers killed is fundamentally flawed plus the fact you talk about all wild animals and then show a graphic of mammals only.
It's hard to estimate accurately but there's 7 billion humans and roughly 24 billion livestock animals on earth versus 60-400 billion birds, 100 billion - 1 trillion mammals and 2-20 trillion reptiles and amphibians combined plus another 10 trillion or more fish. If every single livestock animal on earth was killed it would amount to ~0.07% of the total vertebrates on the planet. Source: http://reducing-suffering.org/how-many-wild-animals-are-there/
I've got nowt against vegetarians or vegans, my daughter went veggie on environmental grounds almost 10 years ago although I suspect she listened to the same sort of flawed heart string tugging propaganda you are repeating here. I'm of the school that believes if we weren't meant to eat animals, they wouldn't taste so damned nice,
so you'll have to excuse me if I think doing my bit in my own way and enjoying a nice steak is hypocrisy.
Humans were intelligently designed to use tools. It's god's will that lions die.
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it's numbers FFS! I doubt anyone else is going to read a single word...
Anyway, I'm sick of this thread, I swear this is my last post.
Agree.It gets me angry just reading this. Some people are just stupid fecking cnuts. I'd actually be pleased to open a paper on day and see that they'd been ripped apart on a hunt.
Your figures there are just wrong, for a start, the cartoon graphic is in tonnes and not numbers so your analogy to numbers killed is fundamentally flawed plus the fact you talk about all wild animals and then show a graphic of mammals only.
It's hard to estimate accurately but there's 7 billion humans and roughly 24 billion livestock animals on earth versus 60-400 billion birds, 100 billion - 1 trillion mammals and 2-20 trillion reptiles and amphibians combined plus another 10 trillion or more fish. If every single livestock animal on earth was killed it would amount to ~0.07% of the total vertebrates on the planet. Source: http://reducing-suffering.org/how-many-wild-animals-are-there/
I've got nowt against vegetarians or vegans, my daughter went veggie on environmental grounds almost 10 years ago although I suspect she listened to the same sort of flawed heart string tugging propaganda you are repeating here. I'm of the school that believes if we weren't meant to eat animals, they wouldn't taste so damned nice, I should eat less on health and environmental grounds but then I should also drink a lot less, knock the cigars on the head and get more exercise. I didn't drive for many years because public transport was a viable alternative in Asia but have had to revert to driving a gas guzzler now I'm back in the UK and have clocked up more air miles than many in the royal family. I recognise that I'm potentially a drain on the planets finite resources but what would you have me do, top myself or give up work and grow my own mung beans and lentils? Hell, I even know that my Carbon footprint of around 15MT CO2 PA is way above the average, but I do also work in a field of Engineering where my specialism is in the reduction of embedded CO2 in finished Engineering projects to the tune of 85-90% savings over conventional techniques and know my direct design work that has been built over the last 20 years has saved over 100,000MT of CO2 so you'll have to excuse me if I think doing my bit in my own way and enjoying a nice steak is hypocrisy.
Nah, it's my way of saying I couldn't give two fecks for the whole "Meat is Murder" debate but refusing to stand by whilst someone quotes statistics as fact when they are so far out of whack with reality.Its a long winded way of saying 'I don't give two fecks'. Which is fair enough, but just say it. Its almost as if you are having a debate with your consciousness, and have decided that there is some justification in your enjoyment of meat, knowing that the industry that provided that meat is cruel and barbaric, simply because of your line of work.
Might arrest him if requested. But I doubt they would send him to Zimbabwe.
If Cecil was so great, how come he is dead? Answer that tough guy.
Wait was this hunt illegal? I thought he paid all that money for permits etc. Surely you can't be arrested for participating in a legal activity just because others disagree with it?
They'll probably stick him in the police force.
Yes, I'm kind of with you there. What daft things they are. Can't breed properly, have to eat bamboo instead of easy-to-get stuff, everyone's desperate to save them even though they obviously want to become extinct.Feck Pandas.
I don't know why people feel the burning need to say shit like that. It's patently daft.
It's like a Daily Mail comments section competition to see who can be the most OTT. Or out-cnut the cnuty protagonist in outrage.
Presume thats aimed at me?
I just can't deal with animal cruelty on any level. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who deliberately sets out to harm animals is an utter cnut in my book. Let alone someone who goes around killing wild animals for 'trophies'. Same goes for people that hunt foxes, and justify it as being a 'sport'. Its vile, and I have zero sympathy for any harm that comes the way of those people.
Very strange moral compass to not be able to deal with animal cruelty at any level but not care about human cruelty at some levels.
I never mentioned human cruelty. I find it equally as hard to deal with things like cruelty to vulnerable and young people especially. My girlfriend works with vulnerable adults, and some of the stories she's told me make my blood run cold.
You mentioned not feeling anything if he got hunted down and killed, which would be human cruelty. It's an equally abhorrent act that's independent of what he did and not diminished by it.
I have no sympathy for some who's already committed countless act of cruelty on animals, no. Just like I have no sympathy with murderers, rapists etc etc
Obviously if we were talking about some innocent person who got hunted down and killed, I'd be disgusted. But he's not an innocent person, he's quite frankly a vile scumbag who takes pleasure in the murder of defenseless animals just for shits and giggles.
Whether he's innocent or not doesn't detract away from the act of human cruelty, so like I said strange moral compass. If you're okay with that being the case then fair enough but it is what it is.
Very strange moral compass to not be able to deal with animal cruelty at any level but not care about human cruelty at some levels.
If Cecil was so great, how come he is dead? Answer that tough guy.
Is locking him up cruel? Hopefully that is logically consistent from your viewpoint.