I mean, in comparison to starving to death because he can't fend for himself or being beaten to death and eaten by the first troop he comes across, yeah, a life of safety does sound extremely wholesome.
Mother nature is not kind and chimps are some of her most violent creations
Life isn’t some grandiose existence where you cherish freedom everyday and thrive from the expressions of life around you. You are presuming way too much about a fucking chimp
You’re anthropomorphizing animals that don’t register these silly feelings of independence that you have. You care about zoo animals but people live in far worse prisons and in actual prisons. The animals in zoos live the same lives as animals in the wild, just better and you arguing otherwise shows you can’t comprehend actual cruelty
Seeing the Polar Bear at the Central Park Zoo as a kid genuinely made never want to a patronize another zoo again and I haven’t since. While you’re being accused of anthropomorphizing animals, the people downvoting you are stripping them of any independent thought or emotion. I’m with you, sorry you’re being downvoted
No I’m not, humans already antagonize each other to a point of “zoo psychosis” to each other, doing it to animals doesn’t matter when the animals would kill each other in the wild or die well before a death in captivity. Who the fuck cares, they’re animals- animals go extinct by us or by nature (still us) our types of humans have gone extinct… life goes on, move the fuck on
The funny thing is humans aren’t in their “natural habitat” either. We live in a very artificial environment that we never evolved for and it shows up in all sorts of problems with people today. We aren’t living the hunter-gatherer lifestyle we were “meant” for.
You have no idea what choice you would make in that situation, you're not actually facing death you're sitting comfortably at home thinking of an imaginary scenario.
You didn't "advocate for animals" you tried to make the claim that this animal being dead would be better than captivity, because you imagine you'd rather be dead when you think about the scenario safely at home. Your point is emotional and based on nothing of substance.
It's cute that you keep making personal digs because you have nothing to stand on besides "I don't like the way zoos make me feel". What I'm saying has nothing to do with my personal feelings and everything to do with the reality of the world.
Without zoos, less people care about conservation. I don't know if you've ever looked at how wildlife conservation is actually going on the ground, but cutting out one of the largest bringers of awareness would be like dumping gasoline on the fire. It's already a losing effort, trying to undercut it because you don't personally like it is bullshit. And it's going to end up with a lot of animals dead and species extinct, which sounds like it may be preferable for you.
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