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Lets get real here please, you eat (or at least the average human) 5+ cows in his lifetime and that kind of elephants are not an endangered specie.
by jQueryIsAwesome 15y ago
Lets get real here please, you eat (or at least the average human) 5+ cows in his lifetime and that kind of elephants are not an endangered specie.
- pork 15y agoThat's utterly irrelevant. I find elephants in the wild beautiful, worthy of protection, and not as far from endangered as you think. It's my personal opinion to find elephant hunters equivalent to scumsucking reprobates, and to direct my dollars away from their businesses. By your logic, we should all universally also have no issue with hunting dogs or cats or really any goddamn animal not on the brink of extinction.
- jQueryIsAwesome 15y agoYes, that is correct. It is wrong to not give cats and dogs special privileges because they are prettier and more easily domesticated? Plus, it was an isolated decision of a member of godaddy, there was no meeting at godaddy to decide the killing of the elephant.
- jaysonelliot 15y agoNot a member, but the CEO. His actions should absolutely reflect on GoDaddy as a whole.
- jws 15y agoIt was a culling. Too many elephants, not enough resources. That elephant wasn't hunted so much as scheduled for termination. And we do do the same thing with surplus dogs and cats here in the US at least. Still, paying to do the shooting is even creepier than hunting an elephant. Forget the tracking, stalking, and pay to just enjoy the killing? Eww. Imagine the Humane Society auctioning off a day operating the kitty gas chamber.
- dantheman 15y agoI'm not familiar with the elephant hunts with regard to godaddy @ all, does anyone have a link? But I've heard that a lot of the wild game hunt trips in Africa actually cause animals to be raised, so the net result is an actual increase in the animals - not sure if it is relevant in this case or to you in general.
- jaysonelliot 15y agoHere's a link: http://mashable.com/2011/03/31/godaddy-ceo-elephant/ http://mashable.com/2011/03/31/godaddy-ceo-elephant/
- jaysonelliot 15y agoFor me, and I expect a lot of other people as well, the issue wasn't solely the fact that an elephant was shot. It was Bob Parsons going to Africa in this "Great White Hunter" role, acting as though he were there to help the poor backwards natives who needed the elephant killed to protect their crops. The reality is that he got a juvenile macho thrill out of the whole thing, from his patronizing handout of gaily colored GoDaddy hats for villagers to his gory video attempting to glamorize himself. Yes, I love elephants and believe there are other ways to deal with some trampled crops besides shooting them. But the real point was what a lowlife Bob Parsons is, no matter what particular activity he's engaged in.
- meric 15y agoBob Parsons probably recognises he was being somewhat immature when he killed the elephant. We, however, spare no thought about eating caged animals that were raised to be killed. What's worse?
- bad_user 15y agoWe, however, spare no thought about eating caged animals that were raised to be killed. We are omnivores and eating caged animals raised to be killed is the perfect compromise. Yes, I personally spare no thought on it. On the other hand killing wild animals should be considered a crime.
- cpeterso 15y agoI'm a vegetarian and feel the opposite. I don't have a big problem with hunters, assuming they eat their game. But raising caged animals to be eaten is unnecessary cruelty. Animals eat animals because they have no other choice, but humans have the knowledge and empathy to live without killing.
- bad_user 15y agoWe have no natural enemies. We are 7 billion individuals that need to eat. Cruelty is a human-invented concept. Hunting should be considered a crime because it brings irreversible changes to our planet.