Is
there a good reason to kill a healthy giraffe in a zoo?
Certainly.
The giraffe didn't have the right genes for reproduction explains the director
of the zoo on PBS. People like me, who know a bit about the history of eugenics
growl and think. "I wish I could see the science he bases himself
on." But hey, it is possible that he has good science behind him.
Then
he explains that people who watched the autopsy, including children, all
volunteered to see it.
Certainly,
I can't imagine that he forced them to watch.
Then
he is asked why the giraffe had a name. Great question!
And
we get two minutes of ramblings from the director explaining that the Giraffe
did not have an official name and
should not have had a name. Poor anonymous Marius!
There
is something very wrong with the director of that zoo. I feel the same way I
felt while watching Stalin on parade or while I was listening to Chiang
Kai-Shek. I mean, forget the politics for a minute. Humans are talented to
justify anything. But then, they slip and you ask yourself: "what is wrong
with that guy?"
I
am wary of tyrants who don't like people to have names and of zoo directors who
think animals shouldn't have names either.
I can't put a name on the disease, but there is something wrong here.
1 comment:
I absolutely agree. Perhaps we are reading too much into it, but I don't think so.
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