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Dolphin found dead on beach riddled with bullets, NOAA offers $20k reward to find killer
(www.usatoday.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2024
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Its not that I don't "understand" I just disagree. I do not value animal lives as much as human lives which is why I'm not referring to this as a real murder. This is sad of course and whoever did it deserves to be punished for it. Its just odd to me that this is such a big deal to so many people when so many human beings are being murdered on a daily basis. The reaction I've seen to this outweighs that of any human murder I've seen in recent memory.
When a cute and innocent individual get brutally murdered, people get sad. When it's some guy in sub-Saharan Africa, that you hear similar reports of every day, it's just not evoking much of a response. Probably that is what is going on.
Also, there are fewer dolphins than there are humans. From that perspective, it is even sadder.
I don't agree that humans are special in any way, btw.
I agree this is probably caused by reports of human murder being so common. Eventually you get desensitized to tragedy when you see it enough. Maybe this was just different enough from the norm that it got that emotional response.
I don't understand how you can think humans aren't special in any way. They are the most special animal I can think of. I can understand if you value animal lives more than I do. That's pretty subjective, although I think most people value human lives much more than animal lives.
I've never met a dolphin I didn't like, not that I really got to know them. people on the other hand.…
I think that's what this is.