QUOTE(discodown @ Apr 30 2007, 01:56 PM)

Aren't you just sick of people who like animals too much?
They tend in the main to be hypocrites anyway because they only want to save cute animals or animals that they are supposed to like. They never want to save cockroaches or dung beatles but show them something that you could attribute human like qualities too and they want to rescue it.
They also tend to believe that animals are all good. No harm in them. They try to force this belief that all animals are cute and hard done by and try to force human behaviour onto animals.
For example, recently a girl was water skiing and a sealion jumped out of the water and hit her in the face causing her some pretty bad facial injuries. In a newspaper it was reported that "...experts think it wanted to play with her..."
How do they know? Also since when did sea lions suddenly get attracted to skiers? Far as I know Sea lions don't ski. Neither do they drive boats.
I'm tired of this crap.
Rant over
Sealions are playful. But people often forget that playful doesn't always mean tame and friendly. A cat is often playful with a wounded mouse, but it sure as hell isn't playing nice.
Dolphins are even worse. They are big wild dangerous predators that will not only kill people in the wild, but sometimes rape them too. But since they look so cute on TV and at seaworld, people think they're cuddly aquatic puppies.
To be fair, there are rare people who can't hurt the nasty animals either. My sister in law will not allow anyone to kill a spider in her house. You actually have to capture it and release it into wild. Crazy but true.
It's not just the animals though, it's the very concept of nature which has been so disneyfied that people don't even know what it is any more. Most people think nature is going to a park and sleeping in a tent while cute animals play. Real nature is being stranded naked, in some godforsaken jungle where everything is trying to kill everything else. It is the constant cycle of brutality and death.
Me, I say animals exist for three reasons; To be amusing, to be tasty, and to be fashionable.