Innocent Bear Killed!

[Casey]

Size of animal is directly proportional to its worth...in most cases.

Kill a billion one celled organisms every time you sit down, or a few
hundred thousand mites when you lie in bed, don't think about it for even
a split second. Kill an ant, whatever, some people do it, some don't, but
nobody really gets pissed about it. Kill a fish, some people will object,
most don't care. Kill a cat, you're a freak. Kill a bear, people post about
their outrage on a forum. A whale washes up on a shore, tens, if not
hundreds of people go to help it back into the sea.

Don't take this as me being an ass. I'm one of the illogical bastards who
will catch a wasp and get stung just so it can be released from the house
rather than killing it. Sort of realized the importance of life a few years ago
walking home. Saw an ant, was about to step on it for no reason other
than it stood out and I was walking toward it. Then I stopped and told the
ant he was the luckiest insect in his colony on that day. ;\

.opt

Pretty much agree with you there. I express no outrage about this, because it's just a bear. If it were a human on the other hand......

[Sasquatch]

Tranquilizing an animal usually doesn't make it much safer, or better protected. If they had tranqued it, it would have fallen out of the tree and possibly hurt itself--I know somebody that has seen video of a bear being tranqued, falling out of the tree, bouncing off (and out of) the trampoline that they had set up for it to land softly on, and snapping its neck.

Plus, a groggy bear is a dangerous bear.

Optium--I agree with you, but you forgot about cuteness. You kill a possum, nobody cares, but you kill a cat, and you're a monster. Catch a rat and you're a hero, but step on a hampster and you're Satan incarnate. I still haven't figured out how the hell...dammit, I forgot their names..."sea cows"...Manitees. That's it. Those things are uglier'n hell, I don't know how people can see them as cute, or want to protect them any more than anything else. Or the dolphins that used to get taken up in tuna nets. If tuna get caught up in any other nets, does anybody care? No, because tuna are ugly.

[Destai]

A dolphins also a very intelligent animal and tunas just a fish. If I was living with a small child I certainly wouldnt want a stray rat anywhere near it. Some people have rats for pets but theyre much less dangerous and diesease free. But majority of the rats people have to deal with are stray vermin causing damage to your house, endangering your kids etc. Most cats though are friendly household cats and relatively harmless and the same goes for hamsters. If I had a pet rat and someone killed it Id still be pretty annoyed. Thats bear didnt seem to be of much harm. Just as Sasquatch said bothersome to get out of the tree but theyre would have been ways to get around that Im sure.