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Post by Leon Loire on Mar 20, 2007 22:21:32 GMT 1
Ya'll reading this? Wrong to Save Baby Polar Bear? - NBC International NewsAll right, so as a quick summary, a baby Polar Bear named "Knut" or "Cute Knut" (self explanatory - at least click the link for the picture) was recently saved by the Berlin Zoo after his Polar Bear mother - who was residenced in the Zeoo itself - abandoned both he and his now-dead brother. The Zoo decided it was necessary to adopt the infant, and is currently raising it. Now, here's the kicker: a German activist group that is meant for Animal Protection is calling to kill the baby Polar Bear. The reasons, as I'm sure our environmental science lovers around here suspect by now, is the belief that the mother abandoned its child for a reason, and the Zoo should not intervene in the instincts of Nature and let the cub die, either through natural starvation or lethal injection. Raising the cub through human training is "inhumane." Now, I won't throw out all the details of the article so you people actually read it (it's not even a page long; don't be lazy) and I won't throw out my own opinion yet to lead onward toward debate, but I will say this: if you don't mind, I'm going to quote a section of the article that I found absolutely hysterial. "'The killing of an animal has nothing to do with animal protection,' said Wolfgang Apel, head of the German Federation for the Protection of Animals." And debate! |
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Post by Tiao Lei Shen on Mar 20, 2007 22:29:30 GMT 1
Even I think that polar bear is cute, but strictly in a badass way.
I agree, HUMANLY rasing an animal is completely INHUMANE. Wait, what?
I always knew most animal activists were nutcases, but this is just laughable. Protect that baby bear and kill his ass!
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Post by charlotte on Mar 20, 2007 22:43:14 GMT 1
Admittedly, all bears are vicious killing machines (especially pandas), but why would you want to kill something so adorable!?
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Post by John Smith on Mar 20, 2007 23:17:20 GMT 1
Ahem.... I can simply answer that question with: Why do you wanna kill Kvist? He is so adorable ^^
But, I felt my heart melt a little when I saw that bear play with the football. So cuddly and huggly. ... I WANT A POLAR BEAR!
And if those bloody germans touch that bear, I'll Kvist 'em. I think they're morons and how the hell can it be inhumane to have someone live in a human world? Even the words contradict each other. But of course, i can see their point of view: 'This is a species that are half-way endangered... LET ONE OF THE CUBS STARVE TO DEATH! IT IS IN/HUMANE TO LET IT LIVE ON!' ... He should be allowed to starve to death in a statis of eternal pain.
Secondly: Leon lied... It is over a page long. Depends what kind of page, but it is over a page long!!! ... ... ... Too long to hear about a cub... Without those cuddly pictures... Polar bears rule.
[... Omg, gotta go kick a puppy now...]
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Post by Director Troutman on Mar 20, 2007 23:20:40 GMT 1
Because they steal the Pic-A-Nic baskets....
Damn that Yogi...Damn him to HADES!
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Post by pyro on Mar 20, 2007 23:23:38 GMT 1
Ahem.... I can simply answer that question with: Why do you wanna kill Kvist? He is so adorable ^^ But, I felt my heart melt a little when I saw that bear play with the football. So cuddly and huggly. ... I WANT A POLAR BEAR! And if those bloody germans touch that bear, I'll Kvist 'em. I think they're morons and how the hell can it be inhumane to have someone live in a human world? Even the words contradict each other. But of course, i can see their point of view: 'This is a species that are half-way endangered... LET ONE OF THE CUBS STARVE TO DEATH! IT IS IN/HUMANE TO LET IT LIVE ON!' ... He should be allowed to starve to death in a statis of eternal pain.
Secondly: Leon lied... It is over a page long. Depends what kind of page, but it is over a page long!!! ... ... ... Too long to hear about a cub... Without those cuddly pictures... Polar bears rule.
[... Omg, gotta go kick a puppy now...]Kvist, Leon wasn't lying he just meant to say a Leon page. Anyway that is screwed up in my opinion. The polar bear must die! Give me a break. |
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Post by John Smith on Mar 20, 2007 23:28:38 GMT 1
Well, a Leon page equals 1 * C³/s
C = the speed of light.
That is just an educated guess... Scientists are still trying to find the end of a Leon page...
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Post by king on Mar 20, 2007 23:42:56 GMT 1
This will be filed under reason 236 that hippies are retarded.
Seriously, and you listen to these nutters on something as important as climate change....lets just the chemists....
My adivce is to take the middle path, having humans raising it it what would be considered a inhumane fashion, and by the I mean with a sense of profit. You know, charge admission, , sell t-shirts, bring him on talk shows where he can enact revenge for me ( I shall get that page of the Liber Mortis back Leno, this I swear), and if all goes as planned, hello Fuhrer Cute Knut.
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Post by charlotte on Mar 20, 2007 23:58:10 GMT 1
Ahem.... I can simply answer that question with: Why do you wanna kill Kvist? He is so adorable ^^ *Insert bewilderment* |
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Post by Pain Killer on Mar 21, 2007 0:04:59 GMT 1
Well, obviously the bear has to die. Obviously. It's alone, vulnerable, unable to fend for itself... we should destroy it before it has a chance to mutate!
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Post by laoch on Mar 21, 2007 0:18:47 GMT 1
I can see where they are coming from since if the cub was born in the wild it would've died. Yet, the mother and the cub are both in a zoo. They interact with humans constantly, yet keeping one alive is inhumane. . .someone forgot that BS smells.
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Post by Kyukaku on Mar 21, 2007 3:37:35 GMT 1
The more you kept talking Kurtzatron, the more I enjoyed that you did. You're getting an exalt for that.
And I never read the article. I just watched the video.
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Post by jahova on Mar 21, 2007 3:54:17 GMT 1
That... is one cute polar bear... dear god... is killing this thing really THAT big of an issue? Its born into zoo... how could it get any MORE human interaction?
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Post by Odin Reeves on Mar 21, 2007 4:10:37 GMT 1
I'm off to by a Stuff Polar Bear(Not the dead kind).
Activists are morons.
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Post by Kokaku Musha on Mar 21, 2007 12:05:56 GMT 1
I was going to post, what the hell let's just kill him so we can get warm again by wearing it's fur... I know I shouldn't have clicked the link... he's too cute xD
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