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| 21 MAR 2007 at 3:51am |
| Deleted User | "In fact, it should be killed".
Okay, way over the line. It is, after all a creature in captivity. We've accepted responsibility for the mother and child, in my view.
But in nature, I would not advocate to intervene (though I would not advocate to not intervene).
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| 21 MAR 2007 at 7:00am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Polar Bears are endangered. By man. We have already intervened disastrously. Preserving their genetic pool is the least we can do.
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| 21 MAR 2007 at 2:07pm |
buni1161Intergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | I must agree- we've already done enough damage- lets help fix it a little-
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| 21 MAR 2007 at 10:13pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | They had footage on the TV news last night, of this bear cub being bottle fed. He is strong and vigorous and such fun. Pity they didn't show footage of the mean and nasty people calling for it to be killed.
I wonder, would these people still feel that way after spending 5 minutes with it? And would they volunteer to either kill it themselves or sit there while it starved to death?
I'd call them animals, but I hesitate to insult the animal kingdom.
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| 22 MAR 2007 at 4:05am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By Caroline (21 MAR 2007 6:59am)
Polar Bears are endangered. By man. We have already intervened disastrously. Preserving their genetic pool is the least we can do.
Well, what we do with polar bears in captivity (born and raised all of their lives) will bear little weight on their plight in nature (until such time as they're totally wiped out), but that doesn't support the opposition either. There is absolutely no reason not to save that cub. Those ones are in our care, so we should do the humanitarian thing.
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