Seriously, I’m not a PETA fanatic. I’m not going to throw red paint on you for wearing real fur. Two wrongs don’t make a right, yeah? But I’m starting to see where these folks are coming from.
Less than a month ago, a 2 year old boy was killed by an alligator at a Disney park. That was pretty tragic. I can’t think of many things more horrific for a parent that having to bury your baby. I have had many questions as to why a 2 year old would even be near the water by himself (in the dark, no less), but that’s a post for another time.
The tragedy didn’t end with this baby’s death. The Disney folks also decided that the alligator needed to be killed because of what happened.
Tangent here: A lot of sci-fi/futuristic movies usually imply that the human race is some sort of cancer that’s depleting the earth and her resources. That may not just be a story for pretend.
Ok, back to my original thought.
It’s. A. Fucking. Alligator. It did what alligators do. Period. Disney built a family vacation resort on and around a waterway that is a natural habitat for…wait for it: alligators.
This is the first time this has happened, they’ve said. Well, they’ve just been lucky.
Maybe there are exceptions out there in the world, where you can get an alligator to act like your house broken beagle. But 99.9% of the time, an alligator is going to do what they do. Just like lions. Just like bears. Just like all wild animals.
It’s our arrogance and blind belief in our superiority that has convinced us that killing the alligator makes sense. It’s hubris that justifies building a resort in this area in the first fucking place.
We’ve declared war. Not only on each other, but on every other creature on earth. We want mother nature to bend to our will, be acceptable to us. We forget that we are part of an ecosystem. We’re not the only ones that have to live here.
We move our recreational parks, shopping malls, our housing developments into these wide open spaces - making sure that people have their 4,000 square feet, two-story air-conditioned, piece of the American Dream, but then you can’t understand why the fucking mountain lions won’t stay in the mountains.
Because, we’re in their mountains and in addition to destroying their homes, we’ve eliminated their food source. They attack people? Of course they do, they’re pissed and desperate.
Wouldn’t you be?
