polar-grizz

[Callisto]

Originally posted by Toad
Sure... but doesn't the fact that I enjoy the hunt make me Dr. Evil?

Only to pheasants..

[Nash]

Originally posted by LePaul
But good grief, let it go.  Don't get your pink shorts in a bunch

You act like he's losing his mind or something. He's stating an opinion. That's about it. (psst: it's sorta what we do around here....)

So why don't you untangle your pink shorts about it?

[Toad]

Originally posted by Curval
Is that what this is all about Toad?  Are you worried that I think you are an animal because you enjoy killing them?  Fear not.  I don't.

(Besides...you wear cool tweed clothes and show the proper "respect" for the birds you kill   )

Well for one, I don't own tweed. I do respect the sport however.

Which is not the same as respecting those that condemn killing animals with their mouths full of animal flesh.

And trust me on this one... I don't worry much about what anyone on a bbs thinks of me. It's what I think of the guy in the mirror that counts the most.

[Bluedog]

Originally posted by lasersailor184
And any moron can have access to an Internet Message Board.  That still doesn't mean you know your bellybutton from a hole in the ground.



.

Thats quite evident, after all, you post here.

[xrtoronto]

Originally posted by lasersailor184
You people are forgetting that this creature is a mixture of two of the most aggressive CARNIVORES known to man.

...and we are number one!


BTW: how many aggressive Polar bears have you had to defend yourself from?

[Bruno]

You act like he's losing his mind or something.

This is what he wrote:

I'll pay the same to shoot him...how about them apples?

Sounds 'nutty' to me... Sure he's exaggerating, but equating the dumb bear with a human life is 'nutty'.

[Nash]

"Sure he's exaggerating, but equating..."

Which would you have it? Because they're not the same thing.

[Bruno]

Put the dope down..

He is exaggerating in that he wouldn't actually pay to have the guy killed. Granted that's an assumption on my part. However, his statement also implies that the value of the bear and the human are some how equal.

[xrtoronto]

Hey, Bungalow Bill
What did you kill
Bungalow Bill? (2x)

When out tiger hunting with his elephant and gun
In case of accidents he always took his mom
He's the all American bullet-headed saxon mother's son.
All the children sing

Hey Bungalow Bill
What did you kill
Bungalow Bill? (2x)

Deep in the jungle where the mighty tiger lies
Bill and his elephants were taken by surprise
So Captain Marvel zapped him right between the eyes
All the children sing

Hey, Bungalow Bill
What did you kill
Bungalow Bill? (2x)

The children asked him if to kill was not a sin
But when he looked so fierce, his mummy butted in
If looks could kill it would have been us instead of him
All the children sing

Hey, Bungalow Bill
What did you kill
Bungalow Bill? (8x) (fade out)

[Nash]

Put the dope down?

That's rich...

"Granted that's an assumption on my part. However, his statement also implies..."

Your assumption.... implies something to you?

That's probably supposed to mean something to you. Don't expect it to mean anything to me.

[AlGorithm]

However, his statement also implies that the value of the bear and the human are some how equal.

A distinction which boils down to creationism vs darwinism.
Creationists believe man was created in god's image and has a soul.
Evolutionists believe man is a species of primate.
A creationist as such has no moral problem killing any non-human because man was given dominion over the earth.
An evolutionist may have problems killing creatures nearly as far up the food chain and evolutionary tree as we are.
Where do you draw the line? Monkey meat? Dogs? Bear?
As a rule, herbivores have eyes on the sides of their heads, because they are prey, and must watch for predators.
Predators have eyes facing front, to hunt for prey.
As a general rule, I try not to eat anything with eyes on the front of its head.

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by Nash
Your assumption.... implies something to you?  

The 'assumption' refers to the thought by the party of the second part that the party of the first part would not pay for murder.

The 'implication' is the meaning gleaned by the party of the second part that the party of the first part held human and other animal life equal in value.

Independant yet somewhat related thoughts about two seperate subjects.

Note: It is possible to be independant of one's brother, yet somewhat related.

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

Originally posted by RTR

Polar bears, well..you are really just food to them, they don't seem to make much of a distinction between seal and "long pig". If it moves it must be food. Not really aggression, more like a smorgasbord.

cheers,
RTR

I guess we see things differently. But anything that views me as food and works towards that end I consider to be aggressive towards me. If it wants to eat me, that makes me its prey. As a predator, it is aggressive towards its prey. Tell me again how a polar bear is not aggressive towards humans, and yet it views humans as food.

"Hey dude, chill, that polar bear isn't aggressive, he's trying to bite your bellybutton in half because he wants to eat you". Sure thing.

[ujustdied]

so when was the last time a polar bear acually ate or killed a person.
its kind of like wolves. wolves can be very nice creatures and there has been 1 or maybe to sites of deaths from wolves ever. i am not a hunter nore ever want to a hunter. personally i think publix or kroger makes pretty good food. now if the bear was trying to attack then men sure they had a rigth to defend themselves. and i think in the futer bears are going to become endangered so really i dont c the point in killing a poler bear for no reason at all.

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by ujustdied
so when was the last time a polar bear acually ate or killed a person.

Maybe 10 years ago, a couple of kids broke into the St Louis Zoo to pet the big fuzzy white bears.

They destroyed the bears and I wondered why they had to do that.  There was not any sinister motive for the bears killing the children, the fault layed with the kids' stupidity.  The bears were just being bears.