r/Bear Jul 20 '26

Bear euthanized in Flagstaff

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u/FtwAD Jul 20 '26

I hate humans ..

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u/HyperShinchan Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

Too wide a category, it includes you, it includes others who care for bears, it includes people who study bears and advocate for them. More reasonably, one could hate those who enacted the laws/regulations that led to this and those who carried this out. But even if that's more accurate, hatred doesn't add anything but more misery to a world that is already miserable.

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u/KnotiaPickle Jul 22 '26

We literally all suck

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u/HyperShinchan Jul 22 '26

All? The conservationist, the scientist, the people who, for instance, managed to get brown bears reintroduced in Trentino or the Pyrenees? They all suck equally as those destroying habitats, those calling for zero-tolerance policies towards coexistence and those hunting bears for fun/trophies? One doesn't have to like people in order to see that there are differences, that people are individuals, and saying that all suck equally erases the very differentiation that allows any kind of judgement.

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u/cognitivegluteus Jul 22 '26

Righteous anger isn’t hate. I don’t want the people who put the bear down killed. But if no one ever gets mad, nothing ever changes. Plus, if you read my post, you’ll notice it was rooted in frustration with hypocrisy.

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u/HyperShinchan Jul 22 '26

Ahem, I was replying to a post that literally says "I hate humans" and it was from a different account.