Posted on 01/05/2008 1:15:56 PM PST by JACKRUSSELL
Yep...
Nature is red in tooth and claw.
It seems “barbaric” and “children shouldn’t be watching”, but anyone who spends much time fishing or in the outdoors around untamed animals sees the merciless, unblinking, cold-eyed violence of the animal world.
Someone once said that nothing dies of old age in the sea. Something else kills it or eats it.
It is truly jarring for me when I see animals chase and kill other animals: hawks, coyotes, bobcats, foxes, trout, redfish...all of ‘em.
I think we’re so urbanized and so far from the actual “edge” that we’ve lost the awareness of how fragile life is in the wild. The writer wrings his hands over the unknown affect this is gonna have on these children. Can you imagine the affect if they made them cut animals open, pull their insides out and cut them into pieces? Oh, wait. Kids used to do this and many still do. It’s called butchering your meat. Hunters and ranchers do it all the time.
Now I’m not saying that allowing people to play with lions’ “pre-food” or that obvious cruelty to animals for cruelty’s sake is okay. And a lot of what was written seems cruel and unjust to many of us. It is also written to appear that way. However, in some parts of the world an animal is still just an animal. Too often we “humanize” them and turn all animals into our “pets”.
Peter Capstick (big game hunter/guide and author of “Death in the Long Grass” and others) talks extensively about how we’ve been “Disney-ized”.
This’ll probably get me flamed.
I read this earlier and had to go throw up! Nothing bad is bad enough for China.
One day its just going to turn completely around & get stuck! I think maybe in Nov....lmao!
It prepares the kids for duty as soldiers in Tibet.
How very true...what a sick disgusting people!
Peter Capstick (big game hunter/guide and author of “Death in the Long Grass” and others) talks extensively about how we’ve been “Disney-ized”.
No flaming here, I get what you're saying.
But... It's one thing to understand how nature works and how yes, blood and death are involved at times.
Reveling in the imagery, however, seems to me to be something a bit different.
On a liberal forum it would never come up.
Not by me, what you sat is the truth. I have always wondered, if there was no law against murder, would the rate be any higher than it is today? Somehow I doubt it would be.
Perhaps if children in China were forced to watch the lions waterboard the goats...
And your point is . . .?
All good things come from a Judeo/Christian culture - that culture that America is outlawing little by little.
Obvious. What was your point?
All good things come from a Judeo/Christian culture - that culture that America is outlawing little by little.......................................
You realy don’t want to go there now do you!
It you have a better culture to recommend, do it.
“90 per cent of Chinese people thought they had “a moral duty to minimize animal suffering”.
If the Chinese had the power perhaps they would change these cruel practices. We have the power and we don’t.
You said all good things come from a judeo/ christian culture. May I remind you slavery came from that culture, so did killing native americans with WMD, namely polio infested blankets. Not that it was a bad or good thing, just that that is the way it is. I could go into greater depth, but, you really might not want to know.
Does everyone on this thread think hamburger comes from soybeans?
Huh? You really don’t know? Honest-to-God don’t know?
I really love how we are so great at criticizing others but when somebody reminds us to look in the mirror, we sure do get all flustered and rude mighty quick.
Huntress, you may think it is darn convienient for women who can’t practice birth control that we allow abortions but remember it is murder in some people eyes.
I had NO idea there were so many lions in CHINA!!
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