The unnecessary outrage isnt specific to one incident of a person spending a minute finding a picture and posting about how theyre angry. The problem is that there are articles written, segments on the news, Jimmy Kimmel coming up with his story where he's disgusted, etc... A lot of time, collectively, has been spent on a Lion that 99.9999999% of the world didnt know existed a week ago. If this lion didnt have a name, then nobody would care...but because he has been named Cecil, it's like people have this automatic sense that he's a lot more important than the other lions that get killed daily. Bottomline...sure, hear that story, call the dentist a douche bag, and move on with your life...but spending any amount of time expressing your anger is unnecessary, unless you've been following Cecil's story for the last decade.
Why do people care so much about this? If it was a crime send the guy to jail, but why make it into GIANT news story? There is way way way worse **** than this happening right now.
I'm starting to think it was all a misunderstanding. The guys he hired are professionals. http://news.yahoo.com/hunter-cecil-lion-tells-afp-did-nothing-wrong-142129760.html
Because he's a representative of something people don't like but never get to put a face to it. Now this guy is up there for everyone to see, and at which they can direct their anger. Of course during this time probably double digit African elephants were poached for their tusks, and other things which of themselves are more egregious have happened. But those incidents don't have the face of a first class a-hole at which to direct blame and anger. I would hope that this leads to more people doing more towards animal conservation of threatened and endangered species. But in the meantime I'm not going to feel sorry for the dentist, because he was a jackass, who acted out just what kind of d#*k he is. He made his bed, and now he'll get to lie in it.
The idea of killing an animal for fun and a conquest is pretty sick to me. It has to take a total lack of empathy that the animal is capable of things like fear and awareness - which they do have. A lion is an extremely intelligent being. They can't do calculus but neither can bigtexxx. But I don't think Palmer should be extradited or treated as a criminal. He's right he didn't break the law - his guides did. Is it his responsibility to ensure that his target animal is not Cecil or is that those who are taking his money? Palmer is definitely a douchebag. He deserves the flak he is getting, all these a-holes do. But they shouldn't get death threats and they are not criminals under the law. They are just douchebags.
Will you still feel that way if he got the necessary permit, paid the necessary amount of money for the right to hunt a lion and did everything above board?
If he didn't break the law, why should he get the flak he is getting? If not for big game hunting, there would be far less exotic animals in Africa. If anything he is actually doing something tangible to save the survival of the species in it's natural habitat.
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If you can figure out a way to make someone representative of something you don't like, then you can destroy that person and feel like you're making the world a better place. He's a Democrat. Not that it matters.
He deserves flak because he is hunting an exotic animal in Africa. He's not doing anyone a service. It's not natural to have people come to Africa from the U.S. to kill animals for sport.
I don't know. The guide is saying that the hunter did everything above board and got all the necessary paper work. Did he? I don't know.
Okay.... so the fact that the legal exotic animal hunting market has played a large part in animal conservation isn't as important?
