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« on: April 19, 2015, 09:35:19 PM »

Elephant kills big game hunter who had been stalking him for hours

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it's just unfortunate that no one took a picture of the elephant proudly posing with the guy's corpse Sad
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« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2015, 09:55:38 PM »
« Edited: April 19, 2015, 09:57:25 PM by Murica! »

it's just unfortunate that no one took a picture of the elephant proudly posing with the guy's corpse Sad
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« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2015, 10:00:08 PM »

Good to see. Hope this starts a trend.
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« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2015, 10:34:38 PM »

"insensitive replies our Facebook account has received." Yeah more insensitive than killing harmless if unprovoked animals for fun. Let's hope this does lead to a trend of scaring people away from this.
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« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2015, 10:48:58 PM »

     I approve of the animals striking back.
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« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2015, 11:17:40 PM »

Great story, but wake me up when Mugabe is deposed. Seriously, he needs to go.
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« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2015, 11:25:26 PM »

Good, good.

The comments on this story are scary though. My least favorite people are ignorant "green" types who implicitly support killing poors to protect ecosystems.
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« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2015, 05:39:45 AM »
« Edited: April 20, 2015, 05:53:36 AM by Charlotte Hebdo »

My least favorite people are ignorant "green" types who implicitly support killing poors to protect ecosystems.

That position is not necessarily based on ignorance. Wildlife has been halved in the last 40 years and will continue to decrease until population growth is stabilized (and we hopefully find less resource consuming ways to life).

You may be an anthropocentric fundi and think human life is always more valuable than other types of life, but valuing biodiversity is not based on ignorance, just different values than yours.

Even if you are not preferred to commit suicide to make room for biodiversity (few people are) it is not necessarily hypocrisy to want to limit the size of the human population to protect other species, if you keep your own reproduction low.

I agree that it can often seen as "poors have to go", but poor people gets more children and it important to limit their reproduction as well if you want an ecologically and diverse world with a bit of wilderness left for coming generations to enjoy.

Humans are wonderful and creative beings, but lets face it: We are also a pest, that needs to be kept in check, and we only have ourselves to do it.

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« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2015, 08:39:32 AM »

Good riddance.
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« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2015, 08:53:46 AM »

Elephant = FF
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« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2015, 09:01:11 AM »

The greatest RL irony ever. Looking forward for more of such stories Cheesy
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« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2015, 09:02:47 AM »

I don't have a problem with people hunting animals, but if they are killed under the hunt by the animal they hunt, it's clearly their own fault.
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« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2015, 12:41:09 PM »

Great story, but wake me up when Mugabe is deposed. Seriously, he needs to go.
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« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2015, 12:44:48 PM »

Perhaps the CIA can arm the elephants in a convert war to depose Mugabe.
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« Reply #14 on: April 20, 2015, 12:57:48 PM »

The fact that Mugabe gets so much more attention here than other African dictators is telling.
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« Reply #15 on: April 20, 2015, 01:35:56 PM »

My least favorite people are ignorant "green" types who implicitly support killing poors to protect ecosystems.

That position is not necessarily based on ignorance. Wildlife has been halved in the last 40 years and will continue to decrease until population growth is stabilized (and we hopefully find less resource consuming ways to life).

You may be an anthropocentric fundi and think human life is always more valuable than other types of life, but valuing biodiversity is not based on ignorance, just different values than yours.

Even if you are not preferred to commit suicide to make room for biodiversity (few people are) it is not necessarily hypocrisy to want to limit the size of the human population to protect other species, if you keep your own reproduction low.

I agree that it can often seen as "poors have to go", but poor people gets more children and it important to limit their reproduction as well if you want an ecologically and diverse world with a bit of wilderness left for coming generations to enjoy.

Humans are wonderful and creative beings, but lets face it: We are also a pest, that needs to be kept in check, and we only have ourselves to do it.


Im sorry but you advocate eating their children by forcibly preventing poor people from having kids and then eating the extra food yourself (while giving some to the poor polar bears!)

This, to me, is the quintessence of Nazism.  The "master race" argument didn't work so "master gardener" will have to suffice...and you're ready to spray pesticide all over.

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« Reply #16 on: April 20, 2015, 05:20:53 PM »

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« Reply #17 on: April 20, 2015, 05:23:39 PM »

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