Wasn’t the uproar because “Cecil” was coaxed off of a wildlife reserve and then the hunter advised he was available to be shot.
Well these wild cats go onto and off of these wildlife reserves all the time. If they were serious about protecting that lion, they should have kept it penned in.
When you end the hunting, you end the conservation.
Perspective.
Giving a name to a lion does not make it human. Calling a baby-in-development a mass of tissue does not make it non-human.
Reminds me of my favorite all-time South Park episode, about the Rainforest:
“You white Americans make me sick! You waste food, oil, and everything else because you’re so rich, and then you tell the rest of the world to save the rainforest because you like its pretty flowers.”
No kidding. If these animals were native to the Americas, we'd have killed them off a long time ago. They are extremely dangerous. Hippos and elephants, in their individual categories, kill more humans in Africa than lions, and lions kill hundreds a year.
And you NEVER will. You'll also not hear much about how American doctors are butchering innocent babies...but in less crunchy ways, so that they can sell their organs and tissue!
More proof that liberalism is a mental disease.
Exactly! We in the West have a profound tendency to anthropomorphize animals of every flavor. Hunting deer is one thing, but hunting “Bambi” quite another. Lions are hunted all the time in Africa, but call one “Cecil” or the “national pet” (even if it’s a pet that most Zimbabweans have never heard of), it becomes a tragedy.
Maasai warriors kill lions all the time in defense of their cattle, with little to no outcry from the West. However, let a rancher in Montana kill a [reintroduced] wolf or grizzly that’s preying on his cattle, it’s a felony and the outcry is deafening...
Same deal with elephants. They’ve been elevated to a position of worship by many in the Western world while the locals live in fear because the locals are allowed no guns and the elephants trample crops and anyone that gets in their way.
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Clearly they haven’t grown up watching the anthropomorphic Lion King movie.
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what a stark difference this thread is from the one posted a few days ago here on FR where it drew out FR’s liberals with their hypocritical faux outrage in droves it appears
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3317715/posts
Below was my post there-
3000 babies MURDERED in cold blood every day, and no one bats an eyelash- Yet let a hunter bag a trophy and everyone goes mental- natives used to run whole herds of buffalo off of cliffs, there would be so many dead animals that they would rot before the tribes could ‘harvest’ them all. Animals are ‘led to their death ‘ DAILY as they go through a slaughterhouse so that we can go to the supermarket and pick up out juicy porterhouse steak all neatly wrapped up in cellophane and cleaned of all the blood and guts cover it during butchering-
There wasn’t this much outrage when Dr Death- Kermit gosnell was aborting live babies- the left was defending him for crying out loud- Nor is there this much outrage over the latest planned parenthood crap-
Noone cares to see the truth about supplying food for this country, and how much ‘waste’ and ‘collateral damage’ there is as millions of animals inevitably die of disease and heat, and cramped conditions, and lack of water, and etc etc etc- as ranchers try to keep up with the DEMAND for Yummy beef, lamb, pork etc- Noone says a word because, well, they like a good juicy steak- Yet let a hunter kill a lion and by golly he’s scum and according to some posters here and on twitter, he deserves the same fate- (Not condemning ranchers- there is always die off when raising animals for various reasons- it’s just a fact of ranching- the point being that liberals are masters at selective hypocritical outrage) these same people condemning the dentist would themselves bash a squirrel over the head if it got into their house, or a bat, or a rat- they would set traps for mice (or hire orkin to do the dirty work for them), and think nothing of spraying for cockroaches, ants, spiders, fleas or whatever, and think nothing of it, but because a lion ‘looks cuter’ they go into convulsions because someone killed it
Hunter kills a lion after his guide lured it out like many guides do- oh my, the horror- 3000 CHILDREN are murdered in cold blood every single day- and the outraged animal lovers yawn. Animals in research facilities endure pain for the sake of mankind, butt that’s ok- no one talks about it because by golly we love our mary kay, our underarm deoderants etc- (Note I’m not railing against test animal practices, just noting the hypocrisy of those ‘outraged’ that a lion was killed- outraged to the point of hoping the dentist dies)
Unbelievable- We have drug dealers killing and murdering our kids in the 1000’s., we have ILLEGAL ALIENS murdering our citizens In the 1000’s, we have ILLEGAL ALIENS sucking $500 BILLION dollars away from OUR legal citizens- literally taking food out of the mouths of starving poor kid’s mouths, and we have a president trampling our constitutional rights, We have terrorists sawing off the heads of Christians all around the world, and nobody says a freakin word- yet let a lion get killed by a trophy hunter and the world goes berserk- Psssst, folks, baiting has always been used in lion hunting in Africa- The bait is often dragged around a large area before taking it to a spot to hang it in a tree and a blind is set up for the hunter to shoot from- dragging it around aN area first ensures that the smell of dead bait is spread over large are to draw lions in- And many on this forum thread want this fella to die for doing what is allowed? Wow!
“Helpful hints and tips when hunting the African lion – Hunting the African lion is traditionally done in one of two ways:
One – by baiting. Bait is set up in much the similar fashion to that of lion, excepting that the bait is not all the way up in a tree to make it accessible to the lion. Drags are created and a blind / hide is built soon as the lion starts feeding.”
http://www.huntinginafrica.co.za/more-info/hunting-the-african-big-5/hunting-lion/
Mark Levin was conned. Killing lion over there is the same as killing a deer here.
It’s not a First World Problem. Only a small, crazy segment of America has a problem with this. It’s a Liberalism problem.
I think I heard on the radio during the news break a call for an international ban on international wild animals hunting.
I’m most definitely against trophy hunting! Also, this dentist sounds like a jerk in general with a sexual harassment case against him that he settled for big bucks. Sounds like a perv to me and i wouldn’t want to be under with him!
I predict Zimbabwe won’t try to punish this guy much, otherwise they hurt their hunting and tourism dollars - the White House is a different story, given that he’s a white male professional - automatic Obama enemy. Would be just like that jerk to play around with this guy like a caged mouse and threaten him with extradition.