Jimmy Kimmel on the Killing of Cecil the Lion

Posted by LetsShrug 8 years, 9 months ago to Culture
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This is what we've become? He who has the biggest public emotional reaction wins??
Not to mention the witch hunt that is now in hot pursuit.
Jimmy Kimmel... Jackass.


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  • Posted by conscious1978 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's clearly a waste of your valuable time to continue any discussion on this website since anyone that disagrees with you is lacking your knowledge. Relieve yourself.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Killing something just for satisfaction is illogical and wasteful, unless it is protecting the animal population from starving, particularly an animal that is as limited in population as a lion.

    This is like air or noise pollution, with a person compelling others to participate in this transaction. Clearly there is a matter of scale. With a mouse, no third party is even mildly affected. Not so with a lion, particularly this lion. There were 250,000 lions in 1975. There are 25,000 now.

    Maybe khalling had a different objection with the national parks statement that came before my relating human to animal life, which is a separate issue probably deserving a thread.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't see the sanctity of human life fitting into any comment about killing a lion or a mouse, which I guess is my lack of ambivalence. I just don't see the equivalence. Humans are omnivores and are hunters and hunting provides a satisfaction at conscious and subconscious levels.
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  • Posted by H2ungar123 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Jimmy Kimmel crying for a lion with crocodile
    tears. Agree with you about not caring what he
    says (or cries) about anything. I consider his
    views as trivia and can count the times I've
    watched his program on one hand.
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  • Posted by AmericanGreatness 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And we negotiated with communists during the cold war, that didn't make us friendly. The historical record is clear on Hitler.
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    Posted by AmericanGreatness 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't disagree that if/when it happened it was terrible. But with over a billion practicing Catholics, it's remarkbly small percentage as I said.
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    Posted by AmericanGreatness 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Wrong again. There may be a random people claiming to be Mormon that do, but it's not condoned by the Mormon church.
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  • Posted by AmericanGreatness 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You are the product of our education system... when it comes to history, you may be the single most ignorant/misinformed person I've ever encountered.

    To paraphrase Reagan, it's not that you don't know anything, it's that everything you know is wrong.
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    Posted by AmericanGreatness 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Way to go with modern history... if you count the crusades, witch trials (which by the way the Catholic Church intervened in to save women from zealots) as modern history.

    David Karesh and Ruby Ridge are examples of government tyranny... do your homework, man.
    You should really use the previous resource of the internet to correctly educate yourself.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "The animus towards him is probably misplaced."
    To quote the same film, who ever said the human race is logical. :)
    I think I saw that in the theaters when I was 12 y/o.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "not interested in getting votes. correct or incorrect is not a popularity issue."
    In the mirror universe, Spock has a beard, Peter Keeting is a hero, Roark is a villain, and a reaction and approval of others is very important.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Then why did they pay off 100's just here in US. What did they do in central and S. America.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Iraq and Afghanistan. Neither one endangered the US. The hi-jackers were Saudis.
    The Germans marching into Russia and Poland. Neither one threatened Germany.
    The Spanish invading and killing the Aztecs. To steal liver and gold with priests along for their souls.
    The Americans marching and killing on the Natives. To get gold and to get land.
    The Americans starting a war with Spain for a 'black flag' sinking of the USS Maine. To kick them out of American concerns.
    The Americans starting a war with Vietnam for a 'black flag' attack on a US cruiser. Military/Industrial complex wanted money.
    The British marching into and killings South Africans. To get gold and diamonds.
    I'm pretty confident there's several more.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness rely on the morals of Christianity.
    2. The Founders were profoundly Christian and founded America on Christian moral values.
    3. Killing a lion has any whatsoever to do with human morality
    4. Prostitution is a moral evil.
    5. You think that your religious proselytization is of any import on a site for those interested in AR and Objectivism.
    6. That Western Civilization is the only moral one.
    7. Christianity is superior to Islam and different from Christianity.
    8. Acceleration due to gravity is 32ft/sec/sec.
    9. That I used a parachute. I waded in with 'stomping in the mud boots'.
    10. That you have the intelligence to participate on this site.
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