Quote (Prisk @ 10 Dec 2009 00:50)
So you'd rather let elephants for example roam free in the wild where they are killed and their tusks stolen? "Captivity" provides them with safety and good conditions, most of the time.
Imprisoning elephants just to keep them safe from poachers? Bullshit i say.
Poachers should be punished for what they do. And the punishment should be harsh.Quote (subExternal @ 10 Dec 2009 00:25)
Haha, what the fuck do you think was there before the city was? Huh?
Actually, your logic fails. Nice try.
Dude, you are stupid as fuck man.
We are talking about razing the rain forest and forcing the species who cannot survive anywhere else out of their natural habitat.
We are not talking about couple of squirrels who can survive perfectly by just jumping onto some other tree.Quote (bob08 @ 9 Dec 2009 23:48)
unethical. It's just sad to see animals imprisoned like that. The benefits: to see non-indigenous wildlife that you won't see otherwise.
What can be done to make that more ethical--expand zoo's. Don't make a rhino live in a 300 ft space. Make it more of a mini natural environment.
Cause we live in an information society and there is absolutely no other way you could learn about wild animals than go to a zoo right?
Animals are not on Earth to our entertainment.Quote (Thc-weedman @ 9 Dec 2009 22:53)
obviously i must make some sense if someone is agreeing with me.
everything you say makes you look dumber and dumber..
Stupid people stick together. He probably didnt realize that you make no goddamn sense.Quote (Kamikizzle @ 9 Dec 2009 22:34)
poor?
getting fed everyday without worry of injury or death is TOTALLY poor living conditions. unnatural? yes, but is that necessarily a bad thing? you said yourself, how can you measure an animals state of happiness? they might be more happy in a zoo, and theyre CERTAINLY better off in one
zoo's do alot more than house animals for entertainment. they often rescue injured or endangered animals, breed species, and release rescued animals into the wild.
Wild animals belong into the wild. No animals should ever live in imprisonment. And most of zoos have very poor living conditions like no room, wrong food, wrong type of environment. There are only very few zoos which actually have decent almost natural living conditions. But as they say the exception proves the rule.
And there is still the ethical side of zoos. Man does not own other species. We cannot do whatever we want with them saying that they are 'better off' that way. It is an utopian ideal that man could exist peacefully side by side with other species, not trying to rule them. And remember i have never said that we should close zoos. Imprisoned and injured animals cannot survive in the wild. But i also think that it is unethical to breed species. 99,9% species ever lived are now extinct. This is just part of life and we should not play nature.