A wholly preventable tragedy occurred outside Yellowstone National Park last week as a bear that only hours before had been trapped and tranquilized by researchers woke up from his induced slumber just in time to maul a 70-year old man who was out for a stroll.
The man was, according to the AP, mauled at almost exactly the same site where the researchers had left the bear after he’d been tranquilized.
The grizzly is a predator, a fierce, savage unstoppable killing machine. Lewis and Clark did not believe the stories they’d been told by Indian peoples about grizzlies until they started running into them. It was not long before their “curiosity” was “quite satisfied” about the grizzly.
Because these researchers were intent on studying the grizzly rather than killing him to protect innocent human life, a husband, father and grandfather is dead today. This was an utterly unnecessary death which could have happened only because our culture has jettisoned a biblical view of the relative value of human life compared to animal life.
Because this animal was given a nap instead of a bullet, a human being is dead, and a savage animal is alive, on the prowl, and ready to kill again.
Okay!
Also, remember the thing at Sea World? This thing is just like that thing, says Bryan.
Note to readers: Bears are known to maul people. Try to stay away from them.
(h/t Right Wing Watch)
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“This was an utterly unnecessary death which could have happened only because our culture has jettisoned a biblical view . . .”
Why don’t they say that when multiple people die from tornadoes ripping through the Bible Belt every single year? I live in a big liberal northeast city, and we never get tornadoes.
Comment by Richard Rush — June 21, 2010 @ 5:53 pm
Richard– you’re asking them to justify and explain a non-sequitur. Your perfectly reasonable, logical, and understandable question, which I wholly support, is a non-sequitur.
I mean, really? “The grizzly is a predator, a fierce, savage unstoppable killing machine.”
No, its a bear, with a peculiar fondness for fish. Don’t mess with them, and they don’t bother you.
“This was an utterly unnecessary death which could have happened only because our culture has jettisoned a biblical view of the relative value of human life compared to animal life.”
As Robert Sheckley once observed, sex is the cheapest thing in the universe, except for human life. The asame advice obtains– don’t mess with bears. they are not moralists.
Comment by Ben in oakland — June 21, 2010 @ 5:58 pm
Actually, bear will eat just about anything, even Stephen colbert. But by nature, when they hunt, it is for things like calves of moose and deer, not people, and not much that can run fast for extended periods of itme.
Comment by Ben in oakland — June 21, 2010 @ 6:02 pm
Richard, I’ve been saying that for years. The south gets many more natural disasters than the northeast or CA, and the only time it’s ‘God’s punishment’ is when it happens in liberal cities and states. I was waiting for them to find a way to blame gays when ‘touch down’ Jesus got struck by lightning. Can you imagine what they’d be saying, if instead, the lightning had struck, a huge statue of David (or some other nude guy) outside of a gay club or resort. Except that we wouldn’t waste all that money on kitchy trash made out of styrofoam or fiberglass or whatever that thing was made of.
Comment by Gary (NJ) — June 21, 2010 @ 6:40 pm
I’ll just bet that guy was making fun of bald people. Isn’t mauling by a bear the Biblically Correct punishment for that particular sin (2 Kings 2:24)?
Comment by Buffy — June 21, 2010 @ 7:19 pm
So… The only moral thing to do is to kill all bears? Because there doesn’t seem to be any indication from the story that this was a problem bear, but just a bear that was caught for study. Is that why his god (supposedly) created bears, to wipe them out? Or are bears the work of Satan, now?
I’ve had a couple people tell me that ‘homophobia’ is an inappropriate word, because people with arachnophobia don’t go out of their way to chase down, oppress, or kill spiders. This story’s pretty good evidence that, yeah, people who fear things will want to destroy them. Fischer’s afraid of big bad predators, and so he wants them all dead.
Comment by Makyui — June 22, 2010 @ 8:08 am
I apologize to everyone…this is ALL my fault. See, what happened was, I wrote to a really HOT guy in this organization and I said, “I REALLY like bears, big and hair with huge xxx! I love to ride ‘em, stroke ‘em, pet ‘em and kiss them. Some of my best friends are bears.” So of course, those IDIOTS thought I meant “Bears”…like Grizzly, like Smokey. God, I hope I didn’t send Lane Hudson that email on “Duck tape”. Damn. Again, apologies.
Comment by Merr?©ll Barry O'Brian — June 22, 2010 @ 12:39 pm