07-05-2017, 12:00 AM
Karen Jones wrote:The deluge of letters received by the Canadian Wildlife Service from concerned citizens opposing the killing of wolves testifies to the growing significance of literature as a protest medium. Modern Canadians roused to defend a species that their predecessors sought to eradicate. By the 1960s the wolf had made the transition from the beast of waste and desolation (in the words of Theodore Roosevelt) to a conservationist cause celebre....Never Cry Wolf played a key role in fostering that change.yes, in this sense, the Canadians really are amazing .
The documentary (that I spoke about before) proved that wolves under natural conditions - not ill, in their normal habitat where they have enough food, and not taught to fear humans or feel the need to defend against them - are curious and not threatening to humans - who behave respectfully and unmenacingly.
The person who did this first encounter had quite the experience.
In the past, there were attacks of wolves on humans and even killings of children - for example in Russia and I think India too. I know more about the Russian incidents, there it was the case that starvation and lack of food played a role and, in some cases, it is thought the wolves had rabies. The wolf is still a creature who wants to survive (just like some humans were reported to resort to cannibalism under threat of death from starvation - which is actually worse cause you are eating your own kind - should we now eradicate every human cause of it? obviously a rhetorical question lol). The few ill (with rabies) individual wolves should not define how one treats the whole species.
Never Cry Wolf helped people see the real wolves and stop faulty information or ignorance. For example that wolves are not twisted and cruel as was thought before (but totally loveable ). If wolves had been ill - all of them with rabies - the people would have tried to heal them (if that were deemed possible). And if they had been shown to be really twisted and sadistic then the people would either not have fought for them or would have eradicated them even more.
NM, I agree with what you write about the "unvalued, misunderstood, unwanted" (undeserving Im not sure about, depends if with good reason heh), as long as we keep the "mentally ill" out of it - cause that term is too broad for me. When thinking of unvalued, misunderstood and unwanted I do not imagine perverts who harm other people because something fucked up in their brain or hormones or who knows where. Those kinds of ill people and animals need help.
NM, like one of your memes said 'a good friend is not an enabler.'
Having said that, I agree, that mentally ill people (who are not under the category that I talked about above) do not need fixing. Sure, one can help them align with humanities normal AP if that is what they wish or whatever, but I do not think it is a must. Just that maybe if they are not self-sufficient and need to rely on others for help then it might be a problem for them too.
NM wrote:Now if only we would do that for every dark and misunderstood aspect of life, humanity may learn something lol. We might even discover there's no such thing as "bad". yep.
glance wrote: If I am to be a wolf, then may my being one help bring a natural balance to the ecosystem I'm being a wolf within
Shamanically speaking, this would then be one of the medicines that one can learn from a wolf ally
The documentary (that I spoke about before) proved that wolves under natural conditions - not ill, in their normal habitat where they have enough food, and not taught to fear humans or feel the need to defend against them - are curious and not threatening to humans - who behave respectfully and unmenacingly.
The person who did this first encounter had quite the experience.
In the past, there were attacks of wolves on humans and even killings of children - for example in Russia and I think India too. I know more about the Russian incidents, there it was the case that starvation and lack of food played a role and, in some cases, it is thought the wolves had rabies. The wolf is still a creature who wants to survive (just like some humans were reported to resort to cannibalism under threat of death from starvation - which is actually worse cause you are eating your own kind - should we now eradicate every human cause of it? obviously a rhetorical question lol). The few ill (with rabies) individual wolves should not define how one treats the whole species.
Never Cry Wolf helped people see the real wolves and stop faulty information or ignorance. For example that wolves are not twisted and cruel as was thought before (but totally loveable ). If wolves had been ill - all of them with rabies - the people would have tried to heal them (if that were deemed possible). And if they had been shown to be really twisted and sadistic then the people would either not have fought for them or would have eradicated them even more.
NM, I agree with what you write about the "unvalued, misunderstood, unwanted" (undeserving Im not sure about, depends if with good reason heh), as long as we keep the "mentally ill" out of it - cause that term is too broad for me. When thinking of unvalued, misunderstood and unwanted I do not imagine perverts who harm other people because something fucked up in their brain or hormones or who knows where. Those kinds of ill people and animals need help.
NM, like one of your memes said 'a good friend is not an enabler.'
Having said that, I agree, that mentally ill people (who are not under the category that I talked about above) do not need fixing. Sure, one can help them align with humanities normal AP if that is what they wish or whatever, but I do not think it is a must. Just that maybe if they are not self-sufficient and need to rely on others for help then it might be a problem for them too.
NM wrote:Now if only we would do that for every dark and misunderstood aspect of life, humanity may learn something lol. We might even discover there's no such thing as "bad". yep.
glance wrote: If I am to be a wolf, then may my being one help bring a natural balance to the ecosystem I'm being a wolf within
Shamanically speaking, this would then be one of the medicines that one can learn from a wolf ally