If any of you know me, I am pretty big on treating animals and humans equal since both are well animals. That is why humans are homo sapiens, they are infact animals, not an extraterrestrial being. Before A blog on here, I have come across numberous groups saying hug an endangered animal. My question is, how is hugging said animal anyway to save it? While it might make the animal feel better, I bet if you did it a sexual favor it would feel even better, but that still wouldn't save the animal from extinction.
The purpose of the Hug an Animal Campaign is to make us feel the warm and fuzzies for endangered species. While I am all for saving animals from extinction, this campaign is highly flawed because most people take it at face value and so I can imagine we'll occasionally hear of someone trying to hug, say a African Lion and ending up the animals meal. All because this poor sap took the campaign slogan literally.
The way to save endangered species, people is to to show people that the animal is truly endangered. Then raise awareness on the plight of the animal so that it gets on the endangered species list. The wrong way to do it, is to tell overzealous teens and animal rights activists to go hug an animal to save it. Because the bite of an animal sucks much worse than getting sap all over you from hugging a tree.
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You must have started writing this right after seeing that other blog...
Good post though. I share your disdain for the "Hug an Animal and it'll save them" approach.
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Actually its been in the works since one of my friends got into the whole movement a couple weeks ago. I just didn't feel like posing it on here, but I felt that after the other blog, I might as well.
I'm not sure if I buy into treating animals and humans the same idea. Yes, humans are members of the animal kingdom. But we are also humans. We do things that are collectively extremely unique and set us apart from any other animal A few animals have quite high intelligence. And a few animals seem to be self-aware. And a few animals seem capable of very limited abstract reasoning. And a few animals use very primative tools. And a few animals communicate at a level that would almost be considered language.
But no other animal does all of thise things on a level that comes even close to human achievement. We are unique.
I seem to remember sharing a thread with you where we talked about supplementing your family diet with venison. I don't hunt much anymore but I have and I might again. I fish and while I mostly catch and release, I occassionally eat what I catch.
I'm just wondering that if you are going to treat humans the same as animals how you feel about hunting and eating humans?
No, I'm not a hunter. Never had the chance to actually go hunting. But what makes us unique is our more complex thought and understanding processes that allow us to learn morality and such. I agree, no animal does what humans can do.
I'm on the fence about eating humans. We have an overabundance of humans, we take out hog and deer, so I really see no problem taking out a few humans to save the species, lol. Not really, but I occasionally fall into that train of thought. Like I said that is the touchy section of us all being animals. I do feel that we should test products meant for humans on humans. I'm sure the jails are full of people looking for a decent job, lol. But no still, I'm trying to figure it all out.
I fish, catch and release as well for the most part. I would have no problem supplementing my family with venison, but I've never done it. Like I said, still working some kinks out in my views, lol.
Some humans act very much like animals and when it comes to crime I have no problem treating them as such. We destroy rabid dogs and I absolutely have no problem destroying humans that act like rabid dogs with the exception that they lack the excuse of being driven mad by a disease.
I probably have a problem with the justice system in China that puts people in prison but once there, I don't really have much problem with them being used to test medicines or even used as organ donors. I would have to be very very hungry before I ate a human. But I might if I was that hungry.
But I come from a ranching background and have participated in the branding and castration of tens of thousands of calves. And all of those calves were either being raised as breeding machines to create more calves or as meat. I really have no sentimentality about using the lower animals for whatever purpose humans find necessary. But I have a problem with anyone who is deliberately and unnecessarily cruel to animals.
I found this blog absolutely hilarious. The main reason is because I could really see someone hugging an endangered animal, then getting attacked and trying to sue. I know that should not be funny but I just can't help myself. Maybe they should keep the moto? it would get rid of some of the less intelligent people, therefore the human population would decrease a little.
I care for animals alot..but this is out of hand. I have thought about opening a Tiger sanctuary and raising babies to adults to help the species..but I really do not know how I would go about that. People don't understand they are wild animals, this is the ignorance that gets some people riped into pieces.
I am here to inform and help:
http://www.progressiveu.org/032913-lupus-uncureable-wait-what
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