Silverscale derg
Active Member
The main problem (and this is going to sound simple and idiotic... and that's because it is) is that "the squeaky wheel gets the oil."
Animals can't advocate for themselves... so who are the "authorities" listening to when they open hunting seasons or respond to the "threat" of wolves in an area with a culling? They are listening to the only creatures able to complain - humans.
There's not really much way around it... we "humans" are the worst species on the planet for many, many reasons. Our claim to "superiority" rests on our knowledge-base and intelligence, which, in-turn, rests on the shoulders of our forebears. There is not much "intrinsic" within we humans, as individuals, that automatically places us above nearly any living creature on Earth without the fact that we have such a knowledge-base as we do to draw on. Opposable-thumbs... that's about it.
Take guns, for example. Can you think of any more cowardly and presumptuous way to kill another being? A hunting human starts out alright... merely trying not to allow the prey to detect his/her presence... but then loses all honor and credibility the moment they pull that trigger and enact the kill without even having to put themselves at risk. Before anyone even raises a single word in protest, think on this: Why do you think we abhor the idea of someone sniping on the public at large from a bell-tower? Becomes very easy to answer at that point... doesn't it?
Animals can not speak human but that doesn't mean the self proclaimed "intelligent" species called humans shouldn't try to study their language. It's hard to learn something as a species if leaders keep getting killed. "culling" is immoral. No animal needs to be culled. You should only kill to eat. Nature can balance itself. Humans twist tests on smart to their own version of it when just as a quote said about not judging a fish to climb a tree, you should not judge a lizard on math because math is confusing to them and so is trying to use noise. Guns are cowardly