General / Off-Topic Cecil the Lion

If they were people, Surfinjo, no-one would give a damn about them. They are better off furry..

Getting a bit bored of snide, silly comments like this, to be honest.

I'm not a hippy, I'm a red meat eating carnivore. I'm not even particularly against hunting if what you kill isn't endangered and you kill humanely, eat and don't waste, fair play.

But it'll be a sad, boring world if we wipe out every apex predator purely out of a mixture of fear and sport.

It is actually possible to be outraged by incidents like this and still be upset by the countless human-on-human ills around the globe. There's not a rule written somewhere that if you care about conservation you have to turn a blind eye to human suffering.

And given you probably posted your comment using a computer full of mass produced electrical parts put together by some developing world child in East Asia in borderline slave labour, I'd be careful just how high you get on that glib horse of yours.
 
Wow, good to see some people care about news stories. I wonder what device you used to post your comment....

My phone is made entirely from locally sourced chip board and organic fabrics.

Now back off, I need to go get my soft cheese and houmous salad out of the fridge.
 

Space Fan

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Getting a bit bored of snide, silly comments like this, to be honest.

I'm not a hippy, I'm a red meat eating carnivore. I'm not even particularly against hunting if what you kill isn't endangered and you kill humanely, eat and don't waste, fair play.

But it'll be a sad, boring world if we wipe out every apex predator purely out of a mixture of fear and sport.

It is actually possible to be outraged by incidents like this and still be upset by the countless human-on-human ills around the globe. There's not a rule written somewhere that if you care about conservation you have to turn a blind eye to human suffering.

And given you probably posted your comment using a computer full of mass produced electrical parts put together by some developing world child in East Asia in borderline slave labour, I'd be careful just how high you get on that glib horse of yours.

Don't call my horse glib - that's horse-ist!

And I don't claim to be perfect - I would just like to see some measure and balance.

And lions aren't endangered - they are on a list somewhere as vulnerable - like many species.

Please don't misunderstand. It may be in your nature to misunderstand - but at least try not to. Cheers
 
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Let's not forget part of the issue here is that the perp is a dentist - I mean no-one really likes dentists do they? I mean they're necessary obviously - but does anyone put having a root canal on their top 5 list of fun things to do?
 
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Okay, fair play, let's have a free for all blazing through the vulnerable animals, we'll just make sure to lay off a bit when we get down to endangered.

Cmon now. Lions are a threatened species that are the centre of active conservation to curb the hefty decline in their numbers. It doesn't take a genius to work out some of a septic tourist probably shouldn't be bow and arrowing a prime breeding male for lulz.

I generally don't disagree with your world view regarding the under representation of human abuse in the news or social media globally. George Carlin got "save the planet" and "saving endangered species" more or less bang on (YouTube that, you'd enjoy it) and the obsession of bed wetting eco warriors giving themselves a moral circle jerk on Twitter over stuff like Cecil does grind my gears.

But equally, so does the incident itself. Like I said, I just find the implication that caring about this story is pointless or benign a little bit over simplistic.

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LOL! And I actually thought you were serious :)

Deadly serious. Strictly my own milk, though, other sisters shouldn't be forced in to lactose slavery just for your culinary pleasure. You dairy fascist.
 

Space Fan

Banned
Well that escalated quickly.

I agree:

If we were discussing an african child, some of whom die from diarrhea - for the sake of 10 cents worth of water with a few minerals added - there would be no discussion here at all.

But because Cecil is a blo*dy cat, with lots of fur, and looks like he could be cuddled; all the human-haters come out and start missing their cuddly toys.

The dentist should be punished - he is an ars* - but put humans first.

A simple message.
 
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