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I see what you mean. When your fishing, killing a fish is no big deal, but killing a deer? Thats just horrible isn't it?
It makes a difference though. I remember the first deer i killed, when I gutted it I was very grossed out because the organs looked like human organs. Keep in mind i was probbaly 16. My Dad did pretty much all the work since I had no idea how to do it, but still it is definately nothing like gutting a fish.
I guess people feel sympathy for the larger animals because they are more like us?
Pets are a different story. And for some reason the ugly animals just don't matter because no one cares about what happens to an opposum do they?
Run over a cat.. aww that poor thing.
Run over an opposum.. eww It got all over my tires.
nah I was much younger than 16. I think it was 7th grade. I had a brain fart for a second.
Yeah if you hit a Raccoon with your car no one cares...but hit a Panda or a Koala and they'll string you up!
I personally think of smaller things like flys and other insects in the same context as i do a machine. I respect them, they have their place, but I don't think they have much more thought then a digital watch. Therefor I don't fret about killing one.
When I start thinking about larger things like mice and rats, I feel bad for them (probably because I used to have two pet rats, nice animals), but sometimes they have to die. That's just the way it is.
I think people care more about larger type animals because it's easier to empathize with them, then say, a beetle.
i think maybe a lot of it has to do with the fact that they are mamals, like we are and give birth to live young like we do. also, a mother cat nurses her young, as do dogs, cows and other animals like that. even the "rodent" variety stirs some emotion in people.
There is a difference between killing an insect trying to crawl on your food and killing an animal for fun.
I think I like choice two the best at this time; but, I would revise it to say "smaller animals are usually more populous" It's something like basic laws of economics applied to the environment, I think. The more you have of something, the less you value it. It could also be argued that human life is valued less as the population increases.
i know this is going to sound goofy - but i think it has to do with their eyes - how human they look. rodents typically have beady little eyes - cows, horses have big mournfull eyes. and giraffes eyes are beautiful. just a silly idea that came to me cuz i saw some giraffes at the zoo the other day.
The premise might be a little off. People don't systematically raise flys to be tortured.
Just taking the PETA view.
But it makes much better news and press to highlight this.
The basic idea of people in PETA is that humans are bad and they just want to destroy humanity. They are basically self-loathers. I wish they would just chew on the business end of a Mossberg and rid the world of one of the "humanweed".
Perhaps we identify more closely with larger animals, and mammals, than others...being large mammals ourselves.
Do you think it might be that big things bleed more, make noise and are more noticeable. I sprayed an ants nest and was guilty of mass genocide in the space of a few seconds. The bushmen of south africa sneak up behind an elephant and cut its hamstrings so it is rooted to the spot and bleeds to death over the next day or so. Did any of you give a damn about the ants?
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