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Originally posted by troutman@Sep 8 2005, 12:15 PM
Another tangent: leaving aside pets, do you have more sympathy for endangered wild animals (like a Grizzly sow protecting her cubs) or a human hiker?
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The grizzly mom who protected her cubs instinctively at Lake Minnewanka a couple of weeks ago was left to wander off unharmed by Rangers after she had beat up a hiker.
The reason is she acted instinctively rather than with prior aggression. So . . . . I guess the general concensus of society that provides for that ready made decision answers your question.
Then again, I hate snakes and I'd kill 'em all with glee for no reason at all.
I only kill gophers - lots of them - if they come on my property . . . . but I don't go looking for them for the fun of it (I forgot one of my traps in the moldering sun for a few weeks and looking inside there was a real CSI Las Vegas moment . . . but that's another story).
I always get a creepy feeling driving by Cargill outside High River where, I think, 4,500 cows a day are killed or about 1.6 million a year . . . especially when you see a big truck pulling in with more victims looking out at you. Yet I'll eat a steak later in the day.
How conflicted are humans? They give monstrous amounts of money to rescue animals from a horrifying death in New Orleans then discuss it over chicken stew.
Cowperson