Of course not. Because then it would be a human.

Duh.

Anyway, thank you.

If Katherine had compared what the bear’s repetetive behaviour to an autistic human being rocking back and forth all day instead of to “emo poetry”, would you be this apathetic?

You can look at the bear and think about how being confined might be making it absolutely miserable and think “gee, that’s too bad” and still worry about the stuff Andrew mentioned, you know. But instead you make jokes about a bear–one that we all thought was pretty cute the first time we saw this video–wanting to maul itself (and you know, maybe things are bad enough for it that it DOES want to die).

I’m glad that Zenrage understands, at least.

So basically you’re saying that you don’t give a shit about animals so long as something worse is happening elsewhere?

By that logic, you shouldn’t care if your neighbor gets robbed either, because it’s not as bad as AIDS or baby rape and you’re indifferent to all but the most serious tragedies.

For you shall never see me like that in person.

We are not amused.

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You should see what the polar bear does at Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison, WI. There is nearly no room for it to move around, so it just paces a few feet in each direction. Its pitiful in every sense of the word.

Cute bear, Katherine F makes a good point about it probably being depressed.