Last-minute bid to save a healthy giraffe that Copenhagen Zoo plans to put down on Sunday - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;43941775]He appears to have gone to the Piers Morgan school of debate.[/QUOTE] "But what about my feelings and these scary words?? hunh???"

[QUOTE=katbug;43941920]"But what about my feelings and these scary words?? hunh???"[/QUOTE] On one level, I can understand it. Even on the BBC, they push people on why they're doing what they're doing, but they at least attempt to maintain some pretense of professionalism behind it by trying to avoid such loaded words.

[QUOTE=Squad1993;43941061]Domesticated vs "wild" maybe? I.e the West gets mad when the Japanese whales, but they consider it to be normal. Just like we don't blink an eye to chickens, cows or pigs being slaughtered. South Park had a great episode on this. I just feel like the zoo didn't do enough to give the giraffe a life, and maybe how they made it a public spectacle. I just wouldn't be able to watch that. EDIT: I thought of something. In highschool, I dissected cats in anatomy, and it made me very fucking uncomfortable, but not 2 years earlier we dissected frogs/ pigs hearts and I wasn't at all phased. I feel like its animals that humans have a distinct association with, some of us get really upset to see them put down instead of given a life.[/QUOTE] The difference between Japanese whaling and Western animal farming is that the west is not destroying the population of said animal, if the japanese would whale in such a way as to not diminish the global population of whales, then I think it wouldn't be as bad as it is now.

[QUOTE=Blackwheel;43937597]I can't deal with how fucking stupid some of you are. Stop looking at this as an adult, and think back to when you were a kid. Picture going to a zoo with your mom and dad because you've been told that we are going to try to save a giraffe. Later that day, you watch them slicing into the animal. Guilt, sadness, feelings of failure and responsibility would arise easily in a young child in my opinion and any "educational" value (and I'd argue there is no value to them because it is irrelevant to them at this stage of growing up or at least not appropriate) would not be seen by the children due to these emotions.[/QUOTE] I can't believe how big of a deal you're making out of this. First off, nobody went there to protest there that day, the animal was already dead when people were let in to see it. It says nowhere in the article that they did, either, and even if it was the case, I fail to see just how it's the fault of the Zoo in any way whatsoever that parents would bring kids to a planned animal dissection to protest the death of the animal being dissected, buying tickets to the Zoo all the while. And newsflash: animal autopsies happen all the time here. They're educational, get over it. The Museum of Natural History in Aarhus gets 8.000 visitors each winter break, families with kids, because they run a series of special events including, wait for it, animal dissections. The Museum of National History in Copenhagen has these activities as well. They're nothing new. The only thing differentiating this dissection from the others is that some retard alerted international media and created a shitstorm over a routine event. No children that day experienced "guilt, sadness, feelings of failure and responsibility" and it's fucking hilarious that you think so. They even interviewed some of the children after the dissection, and the worst reaction they got was "it was yucky.", from one of the youngest. Nobody has been traumatized, except maybe you.

Also to clear up, the reason they couldn't move it to another zoo inside Europe is due to BIAZA and EAZA regulations, not because of gene pool problems. The reason they couldn't keep it at the zoo or transfer to a zoo within the country is due to it's genetic makeup.