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Norway Kills Freya, a 1,300-Pound Walrus Who Delighted Onlookers
- wmycomb 4y ago
- balentio 4y agoAn absolutely unnecessary sacrifice.
- superchroma 4y agoThey really should have tried harder on this one.
- unixhero 4y agoTheir argument: They killed it because morons always kept going too close to it, placing them at lethal risk. Their argument: Regarding moving it: The risk of it dying while moving it, or getting seriously hurt from the move outweighed chances of success.
- Glawen 4y agoI don't understand this argument. Why are we not free to do something stupid and die? Why after every death, people say that this and that should be not allowed to prevent further death?
- unixhero 4y agoIt was their argument
- hammyhavoc 4y agoOK, imagine a 3 year old kid wants to go "pet the walrus". Are we going to be comfortable with a 3 year old kid winning a Darwin award? I know most people aren't, and their lack of decision on what to do will ruin their life as well as that of their families, and the family of the victim. As a nature-lover and animal-lover, I hate what happened.
- Glawen 4y agoI imagined it and I am comfortable with it. It's parents fault if it happens.
- kazinator 4y agoI don't have to visit a walrus in Norway to find grave safety risks to an unattended three-year-old; they are right outside the window.
- unixhero 4y agoFor what it's worth: Volunteers have raised USD15000 to raise a statue in it's memory.
- Arnt 4y agoNorway has what you might call a graduated policy towards that. There are places in the country where you're on your own. Go there and take what risks you like. (I've met people in such areas who were there without a map and with risky ideas about wildlife.) But the beaches near the big cities aren't. City parks aren't either. Norway also places rather low value on the life of an animal. A species or habitat is important, a herd may be depending on species and location, a single animal not so much.
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