The article is worth reading, but a synopsis: A college student studying turtles placed a fake turtle in a road and found that people would swerve TO HIT IT! They would even cross into an on coming lane to kill the turtle.
What does this say about our society? Are these people suffering from mental illness? Are these people bullies that are indiscriminate about their victims?
The article is worth reading, but a synopsis: A college student studying turtles placed a fake turtle in a road and found that people would swerve TO HIT IT! They would even cross into an on coming lane to kill the turtle.
What does this say about our society? Are these people suffering from mental illness? Are these people bullies that are indiscriminate about their victims?
Thoughts?
Some people swerve to hit it.
Some people get out and remove the turtle from the road.
A lot of people just dislike reptiles because they were taught as a child that things with fur are cute and nice and things with scales are gross and creepy. It's really sad. I love reptiles (I have many as pets) and don't understand where all the hate and fear comes from. I mean, people would run screaming away from my snake, which bit me once in it's entire life (and it was totally my fault too). Yet my sister's blood-thirsty hamster would elicit all sorts of positive critter love, despite biting anyone who came near it and causing way more damage (I was bit by both, trust me, the hamster was about a hundred times worse than the almost invisible pin pricks of my little snake's teeth).
I used to keep snakes. I always found them to be embracing. I was bit many times and nearly bit by poisonous snakes on multiple occasions. They still have my utmost respect and I see no need to kill them.
What i wonder about, and why I posted this, is why do people so indiscriminately kill things. I understand hunting. I understand fear. But turtles? Cats? Dogs?
I don't really think it's a comment on "our" society. People have been killing animals since people knew how to kill animals. Granted they used to eat their kills rather than senselessly killing them.... but, it's not like all of a sudden in our modern times people have started killing turtles.
RebeccaChristine wrote: I don't really think it's a comment on "our" society. People have been killing animals since people knew how to kill animals. Granted they used to eat their kills rather than senselessly killing them.... but, it's not like all of a sudden in our modern times people have started killing turtles.
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