one no longer walking swiftly

so i don't even like giraffes. and i'm not a bleeding heart animal activist. i don't send money to save whales and monkeys. i don't join campaigns to get better living quarters for baby cows. or chickens. before they became gay-hating chik-fillets. i don't take in strays.

i probably should. all the good perfect girls in the world are animal rights activists, you know.

but here's my deal. it's not that i don't care. it's just that i only have so much time, energy, and money. and if i'm going to give, it's likely going to go towards a people thing. more than likely a child thing. stopping child abuse, saving public education, ending world hunger. those things first.

but i heard this story today that kinda made my stomach churn. this zoo in copenhagen killed a giraffe. why? because he didn't fit in to their z00 plan. and when the interviewer asked the guy why they didn't sell or give the giraffe to another zoo, he said something to the effect that all the quality zoos would kill him too. and all the non-quality zoos would likely sell him and he could end up in a world of misery. perhaps in a circus.

apparently the giraffe killer thinks the circus is one of the circles of hell? i don't know.

so he claimed there was no place for this loser giraffe who apparently would have started a horrible inbreeding issue had he been allowed to live on. the interviewer then asked, why they couldn't have just castrated him.

to which giraffe killer answered something to the effect that loser giraffe would have been eating up too much precious giraffe chow and sucking up too much zoo oxygen.

and the normal part of me wants to say "hey, it was only a giraffe. and i don't even like giraffes." but the abnormal part of me, is saddened because the giraffe was treated worse than a red-nosed reindeer before he was prized for his luminary talents.

it made me sad. and i thought, "i hope this giraffe killer comes back in his next life as a loser giraffe, himself."

but then i think, "well, but on the other hand, i don't believe in any afterlife." and if i don't believe in any afterlife, i guess then, it doesn't really matter that they killed the giraffe in the first place. just another dead thing, that doesn't have to suffer any worldly woes anymore. and being dead and nothing perhaps is better than being unwanted.

there's not much worse than being unwanted.

oh yeah. and one more thing. following the giraffe killing, they held an open autopsy. and the killerman said it was a wonderful learning experience for the kids who came to watch. wow.

http://youtu.be/DTiJXo5-aqw