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Originally Posted by CCIP
I don't see why the hostility.
Animal rights groups that let tigers out of zoos or cows out of farms, sure. THAT's stupid.
But I do take sympathy for the sparrow here, although it's obvious that the issue is a little overblown. 'Tree huggers' or not - learn some compassion, will you? There's a distinction between killing something that wants to eat you or something that you want to eat - and killing something over a bunch of dominos.
I'm personally far more amused by people running around killing sparrows over dominos than people making memorials for dead sparrows. Freakin' dominos don't live and breathe.  |
Hmm. Actually, I would be more inclined to show compassion to someone who let a Tiger out of a zoo. They have the right idea, in a sense. The Tiger is most likely suffering, being enclosed all the time and having people point and stare at you all day can't be good for one's mental health, human or animal.
These people are just naturally stupid, or their parents taught it to them I suppose. Although, stupidity to this degree is very hard to teach, it usually comes naturally to one.
Why is it stupid? Simple, it's a sparrow. A bird. Nothing more, nothing less. Nature will not weep because it is dead, nor will the ecosystem shrivel up and die because it's short one bird. Life isn't quite as fragile as these fools would like us to believe.
Beyond that, I very much doubt that the sparrow even knew what hit him when he was shot. I would suspect it died instantly, but they didn't list what kind of weapon that was used or show the wound, so I don't know for sure. "Air gun" is a bit vague.
As far as I'm concerned, this has absolutely nothing to do with animal rights. In this case, if a sparrow tried to screw up a domino record that took hundreds of hours to setup, your damn right I'm gonna shoot it's ass. Simple human behavior. What else are you going to do? Arrest it? No, I don't think so.
The fine is justified, but a televised memorial is a gross waste of resources, not to mention a memorial website. They should have used their money more wisely and spent it doing something productive, like freeing tortured animals in other countries that are forced to dance and stuff like that.
I'll be sure to erect an obsidian stoned memorial, and launch a huge website next time you decided to hit a fly with a swatter because it's annoying.
