Why Do White People Love Animals So Much?

[D0wn]

@Plutarch the zoo im iffy on. It's good for our endangered species and learning but I really don't like the thought of having wild animals in a small enclosure.

why those animals endangered to begin with???

people duh

naw nigga say it....whyyyyyyy iiii ttttt ppl.

destruction of the ecosystem, displacing animals and the natural order of things .

pollution...

thats whys its coming back to bite them in the ass.

 

[Bussy_Getta]

@Plutarch the zoo im iffy on. It's good for our endangered species and learning but I really don't like the thought of having wild animals in a small enclosure.

why those animals endangered to begin with???

people duh

naw nigga say it....whyyyyyyy iiii ttttt ppl.

destruction of the ecosystem, displacing animals and the natural order of things .

pollution...

thats whys its coming back to bite them in the ass.

its not just white people but ok boo you got it

 

[Will Munny]

Yes it is hippocritical cute animals are looked at as more important. It drives me fucking insane from an ecological perspective.

Cats serve no other purpose give pleasure to humans and they are an absolute ecological nightmare.

I fucking hate people.

 

[Will Munny]

People lose their fucking minds when a brood of ducklings gets hit by a car but don't bat an eyelash at the wetland being drained across the street.

People are the fuckin worst. For real.

 

[babelipsss]

I love the zoo.

 

[Ubuntu1]

Yes, I agree. But it seems like there is a lot of truth to this generalization. Hm, maybe not?

I don't know whether or not it's true as a generalization. I don't think most white people love non-human animals as much as they love, or at least respect and care about, other humans, let alone more. It could be that white Westerners are more likely to think of themselves as 'animal lovers' or even go so far as to identify with the idea of animal equality or animal rights. Either way, we're individuals first and foremost and if you look at us in that way it becomes less relevant what statistical differences there are between groups. I remember reading somewhere that economic security and the satisfaction of basic needs correlates with more 'tolerant', "liberal" attitudes (ie. it could help to explain why homophobia is so rampant in African and Middle Eastern countries, I don't know how much truth there is to that considering how many well off people are prejudiced against gays. I don't think Russia or the Middle East are even considered generally third world. It does help to explain how Western society has become progressively more 'liberal' as the standard of living has gotten higher).

Hindu's regard cows as sacred. In some cultures, rats are highly respected as well. The ancient Egyptians viewed cats in a similar way. Many Native American cultures perform rituals honoring the animals they kill and expressing gratitude to them for their 'sacrifice'. Khoi-San hunters also, when they kill an animal for food, will sometimes apologize to them and explain that they're only trying to feed their families.

But don't infants have the potential for such cognitive ability in the way that many non-human animals do? I believe in respect for animals, but I have serious problems placing them on the same level of humans. I can respect that idea though. I think that it's called ecocentrism. It's also hard to respect an animal that can easily kill you with no fucks given.

Potentiality isn't actuality. Sperm/egg cells and zygotes have the potential for self-awareness but they aren't self-aware. Everyone alive has the potential to be dead but we're not dead yet. I don't know what ecocentrism is. If it's what it sounds like, I care about animals as individuals ; they have value in and of themselves and I don't care what they bring to or detract from the ecosystem as a whole. I have no problem respecting an animal who could easily kill me with no fucks given because a prerequisite for being moral or immoral is the capacity to make rational choices. You can't fault most non-human animals for being aggressive anymore than you can credit them for being affectionate and altruistic, they feel how they feel and they instinctively act on what they feel in the moment without being able to rationally consider alternative actions or the consequences of their behavior (this could be an oversimplification, on my part). To the extent that they are, chimpanzees seem to be the only non-human animals who are capable of our level of cruelty. I don't know how common violent and aggressive behavior is among rats, dolphins, elephants or the other non-human animals who have demonstrated self-awareness.

How do you feel about an infant with a rare medical disorder that prevents them from aging (this was an actual case I read about, a 16 year old girl was physically and mentally an infant).

But then, aren't animal rights activists and similar people so hypocritical in just that way? Again, I think that infants get a pass because they can grow into human adults.

In what way? Not all animal rights activists place infants above non-human animals or some non-human animals over others. I'm sure virtually all of them are 'hypocritical' to some extent but no more so than everyone else is.

It doesn't actually matter whether or not animal rights activists or vegans are hypocritical anymore than whether or not individual abolitionists and racial equality activists were/are. An idea falls or stands on it's own ; the character or the 'idea-action' consistency of the person who ascribes to or promotes that idea is irrelevant. The weakest arguments often focus on the failings of the people presenting the alternative position and not the position itself. I can go out and kill a man and tell other people that doing so is wrong and it's still objectively true that giving your interests more consideration than you give the interests of any other person is morally inconsistent (it's inconsistent even if moral nihilism is true and nothing is objectively good or bad), my hypocrisy doesn't detract from my argument or reasoning.

 

[Stiff]

I don't think white people especially like animals more than any other race...they just don't dislike them or don't have the same level of apathy towards animals that they do people that aren't white.

People of other cultures have always historically had more reverence/love/admiration/appreciation for animals and nature in general than Western Europeans...

 

[northside7]

@Plutarch the zoo im iffy on. It's good for our endangered species and learning but I really don't like the thought of having wild animals in a small enclosure.

@Pico Yeah, I guess that's true. It's good for endangered species and learning. It just seems so "unnatural" and abusive. I can't front. I loved the zoo as a kid, but it's different now that I"m an adult. Yeah, wild animals shouldn't be boxed up like that.

People be getting brolic at the zoo, knowing that the animals can't do shit. Like walking up on someone you know at his job and just fucking with him, knowing he can't do shit or he'll get fired.


I forgot who it was, but it was probably Katt Williams who explained how fucked up that shit was so well.

That video is some asshole shit I would do lol. That lion would be all kinds of frustrated l

 

[The Lonious Monk]

White people don't love animals. They constantly fuck with them and go around the world destroying habitats that had gone most of human history without being disturbed.

Pretty much every other group of people on Earth loves animals more than white people. There was no need for conservation of animals in places like Africa and the Americas until whites showed up.

 

[BamBamMr7Gram]

Yes it is hippocritical cute animals are looked at as more important. It drives me fucking insane from an ecological perspective.

Cats serve no other purpose give pleasure to humans and they are an absolute ecological nightmare.

I fucking hate people.

Cats eat rats, and snakes and other pests around homes. I haven't had a pest problem in years so your point about cats are invalid, and I don't even like cats

 

[700]

Cause they be fuckin em

 

[Neophyte Wolfgang]

I love animals of all kind, call me a hypocrite I do eat meat though, and I am against hunting to, just seems like a outdated way of having white people meetup for their klan meetings. Most animals show unconditional love, you can't teach that its innate. If I was to get my face burned in a fire, chances are a female I am with would leave me, or people who judge me and make fun out of my face or situation. If I had a dog it would still love me no matter what and be there by my side until the end. And animals don't talk at all compared to humans especially women and thats a plus to hahaha

 

[CracceR]

why do blacc ppl love jordan sneakers so much?

 

[TayGettem]

I didn't know the T/S new about paramore (rock band in OP) but I love my two pits, and my pet rattle snake

 

[count remy]

It's not that they love them, it's just something else that they feel they are superior to and they express the shit different ways. There's no fuckin reason to pet a damn lion unless you feel like you mastered it and want to punk it like it ain't bout to do shit. If it would bite one of their asses off, they'd want to put it down like it's an untrainable beast. These the same bitches that go to Africa just to kill shit.

 

[janklow]

Pretty much every other group of people on Earth loves animals more than white people. There was no need for conservation of animals in places like Africa and the Americas until whites showed up.

to be fair, while white people brought the means to DECIMATE animals, people of all races have been fucking with animals since time immemorial. wasn't white people wiping out megafauna in Australia.

People of other cultures have always historically had more reverence/love/admiration/appreciation for animals and nature in general than Western Europeans...

honestly, this is probably oversimplified. some Europeans loved animals for real, some saw them as a commodity. some element of "all these other cultures" may be a bit of a 'noble savage' thing.

but again, to be fair, point granted that white people took wiping out some of these animals to a whole new level. adios, passenger pigeons!

 

[janklow]

I was thinking about this scenario. Honestly though. If I had to choose between some stranger's life or my dog's life, Unfortunately, I'd have to choose the stranger. My belief: human life > animal life.

fuck that. if i am going to save someone's life INSTEAD of my dog, that had better be one amazing goddamn person.

Again, I'm not against hunting, but I can understand some of the outrage, even though some of that outrage is potentially hypocritical and/or disingenuous when the same people have no problem with fishing, killing bugs, etc.

i suspect some of this has to do with a perception of ALL hunting as being some variation of killing animals just to kill them. and it's not.

side note: point in favor of zoos is the study of animals and keeping certain species alive. how much of either you need, you tell me.

 

[jay83]

All I know is being a veterinarian in a predominantly white neighborhood has to be a damn good business.

 

[D0wn]

why do blacc ppl love jordan sneakers so much?

Why u love mayonaise so much?while ya musty chick slurping on chocolate?

 

[aneed123]

Animals are cool and all but I don't love them