The Imperial Tiger

So I understand the situation is tenuous here, but is it really the ‘right’ thing to do to ‘destroy’ the animal? And yes, why don’t you just say ‘kill’ it? I realize the effort at political correctness, but ‘destroy’ sounds even worse. What did you do, drop a giant cement block on it and squash it like a grape? Of course, I guess this analogy is exactly the point: ‘it’.

This Tiger does not deserve to die. It is taken and encaged in a zoo. Away from its natural habitat, outside its realm of instinct and comfort, and then chastised and killed for acting, well… like a Tiger. As this blog will come to show, it is the belief here that all living things are of equal worth and should be of equal importance in our eyes. This Tiger is no different. It should not die for acting out against enslavement, yearning for its natural life. Come on people, stop seeing things through imperialist eyes, and start realizing that true ‘civilization’ requires compromise, constraint, and cooperation with our environment and everything in it. Tigers or any other living entity does not deserve to die at the hands of arrogance, ignorance, or stupidity, especially for simply being themselves.