We're animals too and as I do feel bad about animals going extinct it's the circle of life.
lolwat.
Humans have logic and reason, we don't have many animal-like instincts left, so no, it's not "the circle of life"
if the lion population inflated to the point many species of antelope were going instinct, that is the circle of life.
As long as the extinction does not effect the local ecobalance to a noteworthy degree, I don't see why the last animal of a specific kind dying is different than any other random animal dying.
Ohohoho~ thats what the Zoo is for. Just keep the last group of W.Black Rhino in there and force them to reproduce. On the side make that extra bucks from visitors.
Either way, I don't really care about extinction. Since I probably wont be around when a specie or two go extinct. Life and the world will continue changing as long humans exist.
(looks at coin pouch made from Kangaroo testicle sack)
Keeping animals in a zoo isn't the same as a wild animal. They will eventually lose some animal instincts, such as the ability to effectively survive by searching for food, as in some zoos the animals are fed by humans. When an animal goes extinct that kind of fucks up the food chain as well.
But it is different :<
Yeah, it's just death, but there's something unsettling about knowing that a specific species is completely gone.
Plus there's a difference between survival of the fittest/nature taking its course and humans messing with a habitat for their own superficial gain.
I think that makes it mentally deficient, not humorous.
And why people always poach instead of even attempting to breed the relevant animals beats me. Imagine if the ancestors of those poachers did the same with animals whose milk they needed. Just shot the cattle and squeezed the udder empty. They would be rightfully extinct themselves.
Because humans are impatient, it's humorous because of it being done on false mythology.
Really...
The end result is obviously not humorous, i find human ignorance and greed funny because of the stupid actions they will do.
You can't really expect people to put animals ahead of themselves first if they have maybe a starving family to raise and getting a rhino horn could sustain even a week's meal. Most of the time people know it's wrong but we're humans and we have an instinct to survive first. Besides, when was the last time you donated?
[S]I don't donate at all therefore I feel sorry for the rhino too but I don't blame the poachers.[/S]
Of course, there's always a bunch of people who're just assholes and greedy as you mentioned but I doubt they'd do the poaching themselves.
You can't really expect people to put animals ahead of themselves first if they have maybe a starving family to raise and getting a rhino horn could sustain even a week's meal. Most of the time people know it's wrong but we're humans and we have an instinct to survive first. Besides, when was the last time you donated?
[S]I don't donate at all therefore I feel sorry for the rhino too but I don't blame the poachers.[/S]
Of course, there's always a bunch of people who're just assholes and greedy as you mentioned but I doubt they'd do the poaching themselves.
>ctrl + f
>no mention of capitalism
I mean, let's completely ignore the economic system that forces poor people in Africa to poach to survive because there are no jobs and no education system despite it would take one or two billionaires giving up a year's income to provide food, education and jobs.
>b-but they earned it
Nobody could do enough actual work to earn a billion dollars if they worked every minute of their lives.
One German historian, Frytag, cites some astonishing figures of the losses and destruction. In the county of Henneburg, in the course of the war seventy five percent of the inhabitants were destroyed, sixty six percent of the houses, eighty five percent of the horses, and eighty two percent of the cattle. In the years 1636 to 1638 the famine was so great that the people were forced to satisfy their hunger with roots, grass and leaves. cannibalism was not unknown. So great was the desolation that wolves roamed unmolested where once were prosperous farms and vineyards..