Hypocrisy
I recently took advantage of a sale at HMV and purchased some DVDs for my collection. These included the box sets for BBC’s Planet Earth and Blue Planet series, as I like watching a bit of nature on my big television with Dolby surround sound. It makes me feel like I am one with the world, from the comfort of my own sofa.
I recently wrote about vegetarians, and their so-called love of animals, but I find this same ‘love’ from the makers of nature documentaries to be extremely hypocritical. How can someone who claims to love animals sit idly by whilst they watch a poor defenceless creature having it’s ass handed to it, or a polar bear swimming out to sea and to its certain death?
It is sickening. If I did such a thing in the local park I would be reported to the RSPCA again. Apparently they are OK though, as it is deemed bad form to interrupt or influence anything which is behaving as per its natural instincts.
I am pretty sure that the police would take a very different view if you stood by and filmed a violent sexual predator in action. My applications for such a permit have been refused so far, anyway.
But what’s the difference? After all, it’s just me filming an animal responding to his natural urges, right?
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May 12th, 2008 at 8:54 am
S not C Angry! But you are right, I,d definitely pay to see David Attenborough swimming out to sea trying to save a 32 stone polar bear. It would be well worth my licence fee assuming I had one!
May 12th, 2008 at 11:24 am
I can easily understand why anyone would not try and rescue a polar bear swimming out to sea Angry, throw it a lifevest maybe but not try and bring the damn thing into the boat.
When we went to Sea World in Florida they had an attraction there called Wild Artic with polar bears in it which kinda surprised me since I didn’t realise that polar bears were classed as fish.
You can get up close to them from the other side of some (hopefully very strong) glass.
My daughter who was about eight at the time had her nose pressed up against the glass and the polar bear had his pressed up directly opposite. They were both facinated with each other but I wasn’t too happy about the bears motive he could probably have swallowed her down in one gulp these things are f*cking HUGE.
Thinking on about what you said about veggies have you noticed that lots of them seem to like cats as a favourite pet?
A predator that can only eat meat and kills just for the hell of it.
May 12th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
I agree with you. David Atenborough is no better thsn a glorified spectator at an illegal dog fight. Im sure his defense would be that he is letting ‘nature’ take it’s course but thats bollocks. We are all ‘nature’ and as humans we have evolved to the point where we can control it in many ways. So as a by-product of ‘nature’ Sir Dave should get off of his fat arse once in a while and put a bullet in the brain of that nasty leopard as it tries to rip the throat out of the cute fluffy monkey. Instead he just hides whilst his film crew records the carnage then swans back to the BBC and cashes it in for his paycheck. In fact now i’m thinking about it, we, the ‘the lisence payer’ pay for that wanker to fly the other of the planet so he can sit and watch this slaughter without doing anything about it. So there is only one answer. Stop paying your liscence fee. When they get you up in court tell them that you no longer wish to fund David ‘the butcher’ Atenborough’s world wide tour of death and destruction.
Really should get my own blog rather than ranting on other - sorry.
May 12th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
somewhere, somehow, there is a little ant with a camcorder wondering if he should butt in and stop global warming.
May 12th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Wonder what David Attenborough would make of Mr Angry?
May 13th, 2008 at 12:05 am
My cat is a veggie although he eats fish.
cheers John