MURDERERS! 
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- Edit 1Before modification by Joel at 26/08/2011 11:47:19 PM
Or accomplices to murder, surely getting a kickback from the omnipresent and nefarious (speaking of whom, where the hell is he these days?) shark lobby.
If it's threatened by an actual predator in the meantime, it could be done for. All for the sake of a photo op. This is why I'm in favour of observing nature over interacting with it directly, unless you know for sure what you're doing.
I like that idea in principle, but still feel a little slimy and disturbed when I see it on nature shows. You know the stuff I mean:
"Here we see a cute cuddly widdle seal cub. The half ton polar bear sees him, too; let's watch as he rips off the cubs cute cuddly widdle head."
Then, after filming wraps, they fly home to their basements and resume torturing rats with a hacksaw and pulling the wings off of flies. Or maybe just filming other people who do so; but the thought of Jeffrey Dahmer having his own film crew isn't really LESS unnerving.
Not that I'm sure there's a good alternative:
"When we noticed the polar bear approaching the seal cub we shooed the vicious predator away, where it slowly starved and froze in the unforgiving Arctic wilderness, only stirring for the occasional vain attempt to feed on photogenic creatures from whom it was consistently driven away by compassionate film crews."
What we need is a steady nourishing source of uncharismatic prey species; that's the MORAL solution.
Poor widdle freaky disgusting thing. *sniffles* Also, it's not your fault the CMB is painfully slow.
If it's threatened by an actual predator in the meantime, it could be done for. All for the sake of a photo op. This is why I'm in favour of observing nature over interacting with it directly, unless you know for sure what you're doing.
I like that idea in principle, but still feel a little slimy and disturbed when I see it on nature shows. You know the stuff I mean:
"Here we see a cute cuddly widdle seal cub. The half ton polar bear sees him, too; let's watch as he rips off the cubs cute cuddly widdle head."
Then, after filming wraps, they fly home to their basements and resume torturing rats with a hacksaw and pulling the wings off of flies. Or maybe just filming other people who do so; but the thought of Jeffrey Dahmer having his own film crew isn't really LESS unnerving.
Not that I'm sure there's a good alternative:"When we noticed the polar bear approaching the seal cub we shooed the vicious predator away, where it slowly starved and froze in the unforgiving Arctic wilderness, only stirring for the occasional vain attempt to feed on photogenic creatures from whom it was consistently driven away by compassionate film crews."
What we need is a steady nourishing source of uncharismatic prey species; that's the MORAL solution.