Delta And American Airlines Ban Exotic Animal Trophy Shipments

brianlux

know1 said:

brianlux said:

know1 said:

I am anti-hunting, but I think there was a much bigger deal made about this than there should have been.

In terms of a single animal and a single event and minus personal emotional biases, you may well have a point Know1. In terms of seeing that people are less and less inclined toward a cavalier attitude toward the loss of mega-fauna, even minus the personal emotional bias it could be argued that the attention to this incident represents something much bigger.

Zimbabwe lifted its ban on lion hunting only 10 days after this uproar. I think shooting them is deplorable, but it brings a ton of money into the area for people who have nothing.

Know1, I honor and respect your concern for the people of Zimbabwe or any third world country for that matter. But is killing off the finest of their wildlife really going to help in the long run or is this just a short term fix for a long term problem?

Again, we could take this to the bigger picture- that humans tend to look at short term answers to solve long term problems at the expense of other life and natural resources. Is this not just delaying and eventually exacerbating an even greater problem?

gimmesometruth27

i have not been this proud of delta since the day they came out with this gem of an advert. props to delta.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUX1LIxLyEo

brianlux

gimmesometruth27 said:

i have not been this proud of delta since the day they came out with this gem of an advert. props to delta.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUX1LIxLyEo

OMG, that's just flat out embarrassing!

know1

brianlux said:

know1 said:

brianlux said:

know1 said:

I am anti-hunting, but I think there was a much bigger deal made about this than there should have been.

In terms of a single animal and a single event and minus personal emotional biases, you may well have a point Know1. In terms of seeing that people are less and less inclined toward a cavalier attitude toward the loss of mega-fauna, even minus the personal emotional bias it could be argued that the attention to this incident represents something much bigger.

Zimbabwe lifted its ban on lion hunting only 10 days after this uproar. I think shooting them is deplorable, but it brings a ton of money into the area for people who have nothing.

Know1, I honor and respect your concern for the people of Zimbabwe or any third world country for that matter. But is killing off the finest of their wildlife really going to help in the long run or is this just a short term fix for a long term problem?

Again, we could take this to the bigger picture- that humans tend to look at short term answers to solve long term problems at the expense of other life and natural resources. Is this not just delaying and eventually exacerbating an even greater problem?

It's a tough question for sure. What if the resumption of exotic animal killing results in 50 families who don't starve this year. Do we still look at what's best in the long run?

I don't have an answer to that, but I can see the parallels with industries who bring business to 3rd world nations and offer jobs that are very, very low paying (by our standards). On the one hand, the wages are terrible. On the other, the company could just go somewhere else and then the people there would have nothing. I think to look at the long run, you have to often start with small progress.