Cecil the lion - why do people do this?

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In Zimbabwe Lions aren't endangered either. 70% of the people over there don't even know about the killing and very few that do don't care. It's food over there. Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Is this the best Americans have to worry about? This country is going down the drain and idiots are worrying about a friggen Lion being killed. Why don't you worry about all the killing of PEOPLE here in America. Protest and bitch about that instead of a Lion thousands of miles away.
And I'd suggest you look at the political motive in this from Zimbabwe goobernment. And no goobernment isn't spelled wrong.

Idiots, really? What is your level of education exactly?
 

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Because it's the media cause du jour at the moment. Second only to fear, rage is certain to get the public's attention.

We are outraged that a beloved lion was lured and killed for fun. Yet a few kilometers away and in neighboring countries are children going hungry or disease-infested while their leaders are well fed and healthy. Where is our first world outrage for that?

I love animals, but not more than children.

Well said, May I add to that the government petition to prosecute the dentist because of the outrage but a US citizen being shot by an illegal immigrant is explained away. hmmm
I do agree that the killing of the lion was wrong but lets put some things in perspective. Oh, and BTW the dentist paid thinking it was a legal hunt. So who's fault is it legally?
 

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I don't wish to "de-intellectualize" some fabulously well-expressed posts, but even a low-brow knuckle-dragger such as myself had to marvel how deftly and shrewdly the media brought the late Cecil the lion up to the level of we humans. Perhaps it was his friendly and benign name: Cecil. Cecil is a goofball name of a creature you could play fetch with and teach really neat tricks and he wouldn't reciprocate by eating you. By contrast a lion name Conan would likely devour your balls the moment he lay eyes on you.

It's an interesting point that you make about the name, here is an article from the Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2015/jul/29/cecil-the-lion-doomed-name in which the author argues that "By naming a wild animal, it is instantly appropriated, and demeaned. It becomes acculturated, part of our human discourse. Cecil’s end was in sight as soon as he was christened; he became a target as sure as if someone had drawn a bull’s eye on his rump." He makes some, what I thought, were very good points but then gets ripped to pieces by commenters who make equally as good points.

As a side issue, I know you weren't questioning why the lion was called Cecil but I think I'm right in saying that he was named after Cecil Rhodes a British imperialist, businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa. He was also allegedly the founder of the southern African territory of Rhodesia, which was named after him in 1895. Though how a British person or any other foreign person can have 'found' a foreign country is beyond me. Rhodesia was the former name of what is now called Zimbabwe where both Cecil's lie in peace.
The fact a lion in Zimbabwe was named after a westerner probably says a lot about where his 'celebrity' status was intended to have the most impact.

The fact the the comments on this thread have dwindled at the same rate as the story itself has dwindled in the media is no surprise. It's not that we find it any less despicable, it's just the way news works. Anyone who thinks that they are bang up to date with current affairs is kidding themselves. It wouldn't be possible to know everything, there wouldn't be enough time to tell it, so the people who report the news select a certain amount of news that is to be broadcast. Because of this inevitable process there is an almost seemingly mercenary element where news editors will in effect select the most news worthy deaths and catastrophes. Therefore the man who died falling through his greenhouse and the newlywed couple that died swept away to sea on the first day of their honeymoon (both true examples) are deemed as more newsworthy than an old age pensioner who died after a heart attack. All deaths are equally important to us but not for the news people, they select and in some ways it seems kind of sick. So for the people that are shouting why are we not kicking up a fuss about killings in such and such a country, the reason is because we don't make the news. People are the news but they don't make the news. News people make the news by selection and no matter what they select there will be 90% probably more that never gets told.

Of course we care about all the wars that are going on and all the killings that are happening we are all human but it's not up to us and even if it were it would probably be so overwhelming that we'd want to switch it off. I don't totally agree with the reaction over the death of Cecil the lion yet at the same time, I do totally understand it. I understand that people want to feel part of a movement that feels like humanity that is standing up for good. No matter how false it may seem from some people, I'm certain that it feels real to others, but regardless of both these views the majority of the intention is correct and it would be pretty hard to knock that down, even a cynic like me would find it hard.
 

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I've never had a day when I awoke and thought to myself, "I'm going to go kill a lion today. I need a head on my wall."

How about Stephen Spielberg's head on your wall. Yeah I know it should be the other way round but I'm damn sure I ain't trying to spell Triceratops.
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Google the following names:

Kendall Jones
Rebecca Francis
Melissa Bachman
Sabrina Corgatelli

What motivates these people to travel to another continent and slaughter their endangered species?

What sport is it to shoot Rhino, Elephant, Giraffe ffs at distance with high powered rifles? That moronic piece of shit Corgatelli defends herself by saying that Giraffes can be dangerous. Puke. Not as dangerous as idiots with guns and more money than sense.
 

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Google the following names:

Kendall Jones
Rebecca Francis
Melissa Bachman
Sabrina Corgatelli

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How appropriate that the above mentioned four fools have been chosen for this weeks anagram game...

Rebecca Francis -- Crabs face nicer

Melissa Bachman -- A manic shambles

Sabrina Corgatelli -- Cola eat girls brain

Kendall Jones -- Naked on jells (this was the hardest one to do, get some letters to your name girl so I can have some more fun
 

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How appropriate that the above mentioned four fools have been chosen for this weeks anagram game...

Rebecca Francis -- Crabs face nicer

Melissa Bachman -- A manic shambles

Sabrina Corgatelli -- Cola eat girls brain

Kendall Jones -- Naked on jells (this was the hardest one to do, get some letters to your name girl so I can have some more fun

Bollocks to anagrams , though amusing Thus Spake. We read CUNTS.
 
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I caught the tail end of a program this morn about the Humpback Whale population that migrates of the East and West coasts of Aus. Back in the seventies the total population was down to 500, close to extinction due to hunting. Aus use to be a whaling country. Tangalooma Island off the coast of Queensland a whaling station.

Now the population is up to twenty thousand along the east coast and about the same on the west coast.

I wonder how long it will be before whaling nations start calling for open season on whales again?.