ext_87635 ([identity profile] tigertoy.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] guppiecat 2014-08-08 04:34 am (UTC)

Pretty much all animals are in very grave danger of extinction if things keep going the way they are. The only hope they have is to have some of the humans really care about them. Humans are far more likely to care passionately about something they've had a chance to have real, personal experience with than something they've only seen on a screen. This is why, even though I get thoroughly upset at many examples of abuse that I learn about, I strongly support continuing to exhibit animals so that people have chances to have those personal experiences. When an individual actor, whether blinded by greed, crazy, or just plain stupid, does something that gets noticed, by all means stop that actor, make sure their animals are safe, and don't let them get any more, but don't say "this is so terrible, we must shut everyone remotely like that down so it doesn't happen again". Because the only way to have a world where nothing bad ever happens involving an animal is to have a world without any animals, and such a world isn't worth living in (assuming humans manage to survive at all).

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