A brief word on Cecil the Lion

1. Well there are a LOT more children than lions 😉 [ducks].

2. In my opinion, our brains have been intentionally exposed to violent scenes for years and years. What we watch is absorbed by the brain as “normal”. We have been very cunningly programmed for so long that violence against another human being on our TV or in the computer games is “normal”. We have almost become immune to the anguish and grief of our brothers and sisters who live anywhere but here. Our treatment of animals in NZ is not good and the shelters are overflowing.
   Cecil gave his life as an example of what is happening to us.
   He knew.

3. Yes…I’ve often thought the same thing….and its that same ‘ killer ‘ mentality that kills the lion unnecessarily that drops the bombs on toddlers.

   And the fact that the media – in this country at least – makes much ado about a lion yet hides away the human atrocity’s going on globally every day , day in and day out makes one wonder if they want us to think a particular way…

   I think a guy called Doug Adams once wrote a series of books that summed it all up perfectly for us…

   • yes I am on the same page entirely as I whence at amount of raw violence on my four yr old grandsons Ipad now compared to the serial books of Biggles adventures and comics of Desperate Dan I had at his age.

     What we sow we get.

4. I wouldn’t dismiss the magnitude of disgust felt by much of humanity when innocent children are killed, but unlike the case of the death of this lion; which is committed by an individual (with some assistance), the former is committed by a much larger organisation.

   Easier to hold an individual lower down the hierarchy to account than a larger more influential organised entity.

   Rather amusing how this “hunter” has evoked the hunter in many, thus becoming the hunted.

5. I meant to type: Feb 01, 2013 :/

6. My comment was edited (again) explaining date below 😀
   If this one passes what is interesting is the report dated 1 Feb 2013 out of Harvard University and their scientist, Charles Watson, deciphering of DNA.

   • Thanks, Martyn. Choice, or whatever the in-word is for the moment. We need to know what science is up to.

7. Would you include kids in Israeli school buses as well?

8. The largely innocent civilians of Gaza pay a high price for the unconscionable aggression of Hamas.

9. To paraphrase Stalin:
   One dead lion is a tragedy, thousands of dead children is a statistic.

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