discordia wrote...
I don't know how tings work where you live, but in Liechtenstein it's like this: deer don't have any natural enemies so they run into the danger of overpopulation which in turn causes mass starvation. It's not a pretty sight and compared to starving to death I find a bullet to the head pretty humane.
And yeah, we have trouble to manage our population...but only because it's illegal to "manage" it, which I wouldn't necessarily object against; pending of course on what the criteria were to decide who is put down.
I'm not some tight ass about conservation and shit. Depending upon the situation, I'll be the first one to start yelling, "If it's better off dead, shoot it in the head." Killing an animal to prevent it from suffering isn't bad, but suffering is a natural aspect of life.
All over the world there are fucking bears, tigers, lions, Komodo dragons, and all kinds of predators mauling people and eating children. Honestly, I find it hilarious when people get mad about wild animals killing humans because, humans, even myself, are pathetic. A lot of the predators that are around today were around before us, or had lived in certain places long before humans "discovered" them. If you consider all the advantages we have over other species, if we just get tossed out in the wild, most of us will be fucked. We can be easily considered a prey species because, compared to other animals, we're weak, slow, clumsy, and stupid. We are successful due to our technological dominance over our surroundings. If we don't like something, we are literally capable of wiping it out.
I'm drunk and if my message is getting fucked up because of it, all I'm saying is that humans aren't special. We take advantage of all our technological bullshit, but if we lose that and come across a wild animal on a natural level, we're more likely to be fucked. Our only advantage is that we've become so obsessed with owning shit that some of the most well know figures in various scientific fields justify colonizing other planet by saying, "We should have all our eggs in the same basket."
I applaud those who can really grasp what I'm trying to say. I've been drinking over the course of a significant amount of time and... I'm just trying to light a fire under anyone's ass.