Humans or Animals: Who’s Priority?
America, I am flabbergasted everytime when an animal takes the life of a human that there is some group protesting the taking of the life of that animal. A tiger takes the life of a seventeen year old boy in San Francisco and to further prevent the loss of human life, the police shoots the tiger. Did the focus remain on the tragedy of the seventeen year old boy being killed by the tiger? NO! The focus shifted to criticism of the police for killing this poor animal.
Someone please tell me if there is a value system where we can weigh whether a human’s life is worth more or less than an animal’s life. There is a place for advocates when it comes to the protection of any living organism, but I would say that in this case, the animal shouldn’t be the one with the advocate.
What is wrong with the people who would much rather protect the animal that killed people than to show sympathy to the people who were slaughtered by the animal. Priorities are backwards according to my viewpoint. I know that I may be accused of being biased because I am a human being, but let’s examine that road.
The seventeen year old didn’t go and find camp filled with tigers and indiscriminately begin to kill them. If he did, then I would be an advocate for the tigers in a heartbeat. That’s not what happened here. He went to the zoo, and got killed by a tiger. Forgive me for being on the side of the victim here.
What shall we do? Should we release all the animals and close all of our zoos? That’s what animal advocates would have us do. They say that by our caging of the animals, we are being cruel. Tell you what, let’s release all the animals and see nature take its course and all of the zoo animals who have depended on humans for their care will now be faced with taking care of themselves. I would predict that there would be more advocates coming forward griping about putting those same humanely released animals on the endangered species list because the are now becoming extinct.
I guess we will just keep our zoos and face an occasional necessity to shoot an animal when they escape. Sounds to me like we are already doing the best we can do for the animals.
