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My friend Justin sent me a link to this site... You can hunt and shoot animals through the Internets. They have Barbary Sheep, Blackbuck Antelope, sheep and wild hogs.
It's real, actual hunting. They have video cameras that swivel around, and there are actual guns, and they have someone at the "shooting station" at all times to keep everything going and shut down the guns if you start aiming at birds that fly past. (You uncooperative butt.)
The Daily Show had a segment on this site, or one enough like it that I can't tell the difference. They made fun of it... that's kinda their thing. But they didn't go far enough pointing out the biggest problems with this.
The Internets was not made for this! The Internets is for getting fast insurance quotes in the middle of the night, emailing everybody you know, and fast, hot, fresh porn. Also Everquest, to keep hopeless geeks from getting outside and eventually breeding. But not long-distance murder!
Hunters are people that, by definition, like to shoot at and kill other creatures. And that is just not all right. I know humans have done that ever since they figured out how, and I know that SOME hunters actually eat the carcasses of their kill, but still. It's twisted, and sick, to be raise your kids to go out and take lives. To plan big weekends around murder.
We're learning more all the time about how animals are not really that dumb. Cows solve puzzles, and give a little, excited jump in the air when they figure something out. Sheep can recognize the faces of ten people and fifty sheep. Chickens are smarter than DOGS. Parrots have the intelligence of five-year-old humans.
Test this and see! Tell the parrot you're going to Disney World if it gets good grades at school, and watch it throw a fit as it realizes it doesn't GO to school, and therefore will not be able to bring home a good report card!
Read this, and agree with me, okay? You know you want to.
Sheep Might Be Dumb, But They're Not Stupid "Studies show that farmyard animals have a range of emotions and a sharp intelligence."
My friend Justin sent me a link to this site... You can hunt and shoot animals through the Internets. They have Barbary Sheep, Blackbuck Antelope, sheep and wild hogs.
It's real, actual hunting. They have video cameras that swivel around, and there are actual guns, and they have someone at the "shooting station" at all times to keep everything going and shut down the guns if you start aiming at birds that fly past. (You uncooperative butt.)
The Daily Show had a segment on this site, or one enough like it that I can't tell the difference. They made fun of it... that's kinda their thing. But they didn't go far enough pointing out the biggest problems with this.
The Internets was not made for this! The Internets is for getting fast insurance quotes in the middle of the night, emailing everybody you know, and fast, hot, fresh porn. Also Everquest, to keep hopeless geeks from getting outside and eventually breeding. But not long-distance murder!
Hunters are people that, by definition, like to shoot at and kill other creatures. And that is just not all right. I know humans have done that ever since they figured out how, and I know that SOME hunters actually eat the carcasses of their kill, but still. It's twisted, and sick, to be raise your kids to go out and take lives. To plan big weekends around murder.
We're learning more all the time about how animals are not really that dumb. Cows solve puzzles, and give a little, excited jump in the air when they figure something out. Sheep can recognize the faces of ten people and fifty sheep. Chickens are smarter than DOGS. Parrots have the intelligence of five-year-old humans.
Test this and see! Tell the parrot you're going to Disney World if it gets good grades at school, and watch it throw a fit as it realizes it doesn't GO to school, and therefore will not be able to bring home a good report card!
Read this, and agree with me, okay? You know you want to.
Sheep Might Be Dumb, But They're Not Stupid "Studies show that farmyard animals have a range of emotions and a sharp intelligence."
posted by annekat at
1:46 PM
2 Comments:
You know, I got into huge trouble in college one time for a fact mentioned in that article.
My psychology professor was going on and on about what made us human, what made us tick mentally and mentioned how the animals did not mourn their dead. I stupidly raised my hand and asked what about elephant mourning and burial rituals, and he basically told me I was making it up and it was not the same thing.
I was so shy I never EVER spoke in class, and here the one time I did, he got mad at me. I love that article, I feel strangely vindicated against a man who is probably about 89 now, and close enough to his own burial rituals that he doesn't give a fig about elephany wakes.
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Jamie, at 2:03 PM
You never know... As close-minded as he was back then, maybe things have happened that have changed his views.
But if not, what's his name? Where does he live? I'll get a parrot and I'll go over there and have the parrot tear his house up! THAT'LL learn him! Some psychology professor! More like a NOT-LIKE-ology professor! (I got nothin'.)
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annekat, at 2:43 PM
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