Posted on 12/23/2009 10:05:41 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
I've always been amazed at liberals when it comes to their absurd penchant for acting as if animals are somehow just like people. This anthropomorphizing of the animal kingdom is fine if you are talking with kids, reading fairy tales, or creating entertainment, but when you are talking like adults about science or generally about animals there is no place for it. Animals are not people. It's just that simple.
But apparently we can't tell that to the left-wingers at NPR because on Dec. 22 on the Morning Edition program we got a pretty silly story about baboons and their "mystical moment" that beggers description.
The story is about a troop of 30 baboons in Kenya that was being observed by professor Barbara Smuts who was studying them for several months. As it happened, one day as Smuts was following the troop back to its sleeping area, the whole troops stopped dead in its tracks.
Here is how NPR described the incident...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
“The story is about a troop of 30 baboons in Kenya that was being observed by professor Barbara Smuts who was studying them for several months.”
I will have to pass on comments here because they are sure to lead me into some sort of sixth grader’s stream of jokes...
Yeah, just animals.
Well, I’ve always felt animals are people... really tasty people that go good with mashed potatoes, at least in the case of Bovine-Americans and Porcine-Americans. :-)
****They all, or most of them, gazed down into the little pool right below them and hardly moved.****
Let me finish the essay:
They cautiously watched their own reflections in the water..and like most animals, were perplexed. Not sure if these reflections were hostile or submissive, they sipped the water cautiously - and as they did - the liquid baboons seemed to disappear.
You’ve got plenty of people right here on FR that think a cat or dog is as valuable, or more so, than a human life.
Stories here are posted about animal abuse and these people go off the deep end advocating everything from live torching to castration to beheading. Sure, animal abuse ought to be prevented through the threat of punishment, but I really don’t think it is worthy of prolonged torture and capital punishment for a cat.
I think it is some kind of mental illness and reflects a self-hatred and hatred of their fellow human beings. It is one of those mental illnesses that some part of society looks on with appreciation but really does no good for those suffering from it.
Not a particularly good point.
Charla is the lady who got so thoroughly chewed up by a chimp a while back.
Unfortunately, there are plenty of humans (using the term somewhat loosely) out there who would take great pleasure in doing the same damage or worse to another human being than the chimp did to Charla.
You are quite correct. A great many people seem to react much stronger emotionally to mistreatment of an animal, especially a cute one, than to similar mistreatment of a human.
completely agree. mostly it’s folks who never found anything to worship, so they worship animals. For example, I’ve known so many of these “Cat Women”.. usually it’s women without any children, who go overboard on this.. I love animals and I have a cat, have owned cats, dogs, birds, reptiles, rodents, etc. I just love humans more. Not so with these women, at least those 3 to 5 that I know, they seem to hate men and children, but just go gaga over these d*mn cats. Seriously nuts over cats.
What about the venison-americans? the poultry-americans? Frog-leg-americans? Fishy-americans? Cute-little-lamb-americans?
So many Potatoes, so little time.
And your point?
I got room for all of them on the plate too!
Well, except maybe the lamb. I just never developed a taste for it. My grandma would fix a leg of lamb every Easter and I would stuff myself on coleslaw and buns. :-)
:-)
To love and respect all of God’s creatures is to be blessed.
I, for one, cannot accept that somehow torturing an animal is somehow not as barbaric as torturing a human being.
The evil required to do one, or both is equal.
Animals can be loved unconditionally and will never really contradict you, lie to you, cheat, etc. That, I believe, is the reason people love cats or any animal in preference to human beings. And, no, I do not think it is emotionally healthy.
The major quarrel I have with the animals over humans crowd is that so many of them are also pro-aborts. That babies suffer horrible deaths bothers them not a smidgin, but whack a seal or some such, and they are all over you like, well, like shrieking baboons.
I, for one, cannot accept that somehow torturing an animal is somehow not as barbaric as torturing a human being.Um... WHO was talking about "torturing" animals??? Just YOU as far as I can see.
post #7
Like I said, only you. Post number 7 was not talking about torturing animals, nor was it condoning it or blowing it off. It was placing the debate in its proper perspective. Animals are NOT as important as humans. Period. You are the one that jumped to the wild conclusion that people didn’t care if animals were tortured. That makes you part of the problem, actually.
Now who's going overboard? It should be simple to point out anyone here who is seeking such. Can you produce the links to such FR posts? WHO was talking about this? Just YOU as far as I can see.
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