Kurt Russel is my favorite Disney Princess
I digress.
Anyhoo, people online have been up in arms over a dentist who gets his rocks off by killing large animals. Walter Palmer paid $50,000 big ones to off a lion. This kind of trophy hunting is actually pretty standard over there, and although deplorable in this instance, happens far more often than most people like to think.
I'll go through the details anyways. Dr. Palmer paid a bunch of money to shoot a lion. Cecil (the lion in question) is an older lion that lives in a National park in Zimbabwe. It's against the law to shoot a lion in a national park. Dentist McShooty and friends lure the lion OUT of the park to kill him, They use a bow, because it's quiet. They shoot him, Cecil decides he still has some fight left in his old bones, and doesn't die. Dentist Not-Very-Good-Shot takes a nap. They take up the chase much later, and finally kill Cecil. They cut off his head and skin him, leaving the rest. But Cecil still has some tricks up his sleeve, namely the GPS collar that was used to track him. The collar that was attached by the Oxford University. So Dentist Realizes-Somethings-Amiss tries to destroy the collar. No such luck. Gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
Dentists really shouldn't be eating cookies anyways
As a result, he had to close up shop and disappear.
This is what the internet is telling me. The problem with the internet is that it is frequently full of shit. As for Dr. Palmer, I can guarantee that he'll be laying low for a while, open a new practice somewhere in Wisconsin where they don't give two shits about lions. As for Cecil, his legacy will live on through his cubs, which are now more than likely being killed by the next male lion, because that's the law of the jungle.
What bothers me about this isn't the killing of Cecil. Yes, if true, that shit is absolutely deplorable and Walter Palmer should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. IF it's true. I'm not sure if it's true, at least the way the internet has put forth. I'm a little bit more worried about the rise of public shaming through the internet.
The problem with public shaming, online justice, or internet vigilantism, is that it's very much the equivalent of grabbing a pitchfork, some torches and joining a mob. There's another name for this. It's called lynching. Although these days it doesn't involve the closest tree and a noose, it's still feeding the shitty, unthinking, hyper-emotional parts of the brain that is unfortunately keeping our species much closer to our monkey ancestors than I'd care to admit.
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But let's be honest, you didn't come here for rationality. You came to hear me rant.
Fuck these hypocritical clowns who get outraged over shit like this. ISIS still is beheading and raping people in the middle east, we deal with corrupt bureaucracy all over the world, cancer has not been cured, and this is what you get pissy about? An oversized cat? Let's be frank. You don't give a shit about animals, you give a shit about cute, cuddly, photogenic animals. Put it this way, if you get outraged over shit like this, yet still buy meat from Superstore or Walmart or large chains, you honestly don't give two flying fucks about animals. You're just looking for an excuse to let out your inner monkey. And one day, some over-paid physiotherapist from Minnesota with too much time on their hands is going to bait a hot car with a poodle in it. When you decide to let out your inner monkey, Dr. Schmucko is going to be waiting with a cross-bow. Hopefully your ass is endangered and looks good on camera, because if not, no one is going to give a shit.
Sincerely,
The Illustrious Mr. Charlton
p.s. If predators were delicious, we'd be eating cats and dogs, and keeping cows as pets.
p.s.s. I always wanted a chicken, just because I'd name him 'Poulet'.
