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brightspot -> RE: I am Soooooooo Pissed.... (5/19/2006 7:23:49 PM)
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First I would like to say that it was not only Inside Edition that is running the story about the alligators.
There is the same kind of reporting coming from CNN and other national news broadcasts.
Second, I am not ignorant about alligators and their behavior or even the best way to move a gator to other living areas.
Third I do not advocate people going up to the edge of the water and feeding the gators, I was speaking along the lines of looking to see if something has killed off or reduced their food supply and somehow restocking their natural diet, they don't necessarily need to know it came from a human source.
The news people are claiming that alligator attacks where death has been a result was like 2 in the last decade and just in the recent weeks they have become aggressive and there have been 4 attacks 3 resulting in death. So what is wrong with this picture? So many of you think well just kill the alligators and think of why there is a problem later?
It's apparrent many of you could give a chit how the situation is handled, sad, very sad.
Yes I live in the midwest well more nothern part of the midwest and we have bears up here and the same thing happens when there is a bear attack, it is never a stupid human act that is blamed for an attack it is always brought down on the bear, so out come the guns and bears in the vicinity are tracked down and killed even when they have no idea which bear was involved in the attack. The same thing happens just as often when a hungry bear wanders into a community to find food, people get so frenzied that more often than not the bear is shot on the spot as opposed to tranqulized and moved to a more rural location.
It's the same with moose here, the mountain lion or cougars get the same rap where human's are building in their natural habitat. Right now the polar bears are starving because of global warming and if they come into a village looking for food they are often shot on the spot. Oh and let's not forget about the villified sharks that swin "our" oceans.
If someone in Africa is killed by a lion they don't go around killing lions, but that rarely happens because natives of Africa have respect for their animal relatives, whether that be lions, cheetas, hyennas, whatever they know the habits of their wildlife and respect their territory and honor how dangerous they can be if intruded upon. Thats why when you see such shows as National Geographic you are allowed to see such film about the wild animals without them attacking the film crew because they play by the animal's rules, not some idiot human's.
Animal species are being killed off and erradicated everyday whether that be here in America or in the rain forests of South America.
Seems as if some of you have the attitude well if an animal has the audacity for any reason to attack a human they should be killed. Well I feel if the ignorance of the human race continues down this path of human supperiority complex and continue to disrespect the earth and it's animal inhabitants, your grandchildren and their children will live in a very unbalanced world and many of the animals most take for granted will be gone.
I for one would rather see a lot less human beings around than loose whole wildlife populations.
Also while I can respect polygamy as an alternative lifestyle choice, I begin to have a probelm with men who take on three, four. five etc. wives and have forty, fifty, even sixty children and live off tax payers money to fund their isolated controlled villages.
I think humans need to quickly think of alternative action plans before outbreaks like these happen and not just become knee-jerk killing machines. I will even push so far as to narrow that group down to the White man, who at one time tired to eradicate fellow human beings who they felt were causing problems as they infiltrated this country, almost killed off the beavers to make money and may I mention killed thousands of buffullo for sport and to rob the Natives of their staple food that was also used for clothing, shelter and many other things. When the Native Americans killed it was for food and survival and the animals were respected and honored as life's breath itself and every last little part of that buffullo was used in some way.. And then with the same sense of distorted superiority captured the "sub-human" Africans and forced them into slavery.
Native American and indiginous cultures have much more knowledge, respect and tolerance when it comes to sharing their space with the wild animals of the world.
So those of you who think this thread is a crock(no pun intended) I'd like to see how you feel about things in twenty or thirty years from now when more species are eradicated and not just species of frogs, bugs, or plants but also the larger species of wildlife I feel most of you take for granted and do not think need protection from ignorant human beings. I think human beings need protection from ourselves for most haven't a clue just how every little "fauxpas" actually has a huge impact down the line.
We can fly into space, send robot vehicles to mars, but we can't figure out to live peacefully with our wild life populations?
Again I ask what's wrong with this picture?
I guess y'all think it is also much better to keep building nucleur power plants, oil refineries in Alaska, running around in huge gas guzzling vehicals to meet your selfish needs as opposed to supporting ways to find alternative ways supplies of energy and ways to more intelligently use it.
Some human beings are so arrogant, ignorant, selfish creatures that our destruction by our own hands I feel is not that far down the road. When the average daily temperature starts reaching outrageous highs even here in the "Frozen Tundra" it will be to late to turn back folks! So no need to ask if I am not also passionate about other issues out there that man has tainted for their own selfish pleasures and conveniences[:'(].
*Brightspot
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