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Knowing Australia, there could be 500 million flies in one fire alone but nobody sheds a tear for them.
by baggy_trough 7y ago
Knowing Australia, there could be 500 million flies in one fire alone but nobody sheds a tear for them.
- samcday 7y agoI mean, if I woke up and read that 500 million mosquitoes were victim to the Australian wildfires, I might not be so sad either. But then you watch a video showing the charred carcasses of many beautiful Australian marsupial and bird species littered on the side of the road [1], and you realize jokes aren't really very useful here. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn1vMTA3OD0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn1vMTA3OD0
- 55555 7y agoI think they are just pointing out that the people who think they love animals actually only really seem to love cute animals. And when you think about that for a bit, it seems less pure.